Orange County, California-based entrepreneur Manny Bojorquez leads a diverse array of businesses, including companies that provide customized parts for high-end performance vehicles. Possessing an interest in a variety of racing events, Manny Bojorquez is a member of the International Mile Racing Association (IMRA).IMRA is not a race organizer, but a sanctioning body for the sport of mile automotive racing that ensures adherence to safety protocols and competition rules across various venues. IMRA sanctions specific types of auto races, including a “Standing Mile” race, where vehicles begin from a stopped position and rapidly accelerate throughout the whole mile race. The winner is the driver with the highest mile-per-hour (MPH) reading at the end of the race.Other IMRA-sanctioned races include the “Flying Mile,” where vehicles have a 300-foot head start to begin accelerating before reaching the start line, and the “ET Mile,” which differs from the others because the elapsed time, rather than the final MPH reading, is used to determine the winner. Additionally, the association sanctions half-mile, quarter-mile, and 1.75 “Flying Mile” races.IMRA is also responsible for inspecting the vehicles and courses for safety. Sanctioned race tracks must be at least 45-feet wide and 9,000-feet long for mile-long racing events.
An Orange County, California, entrepreneur, Manny Bojorquez has directed successful ventures that encompass the automotive equipment, food manufacturing, health care, and legal services markets. Manny Bojorquez currently leads, among other companies, HyperCar Development, which focuses on producing customized products designed to enhance the performance of McLaren racing cars in particular.The McLaren is an ultra-high-status make of grand prix racer with individual vehicles typically selling for six figures, some close to $1 million or more.The McLaren Group at the McLaren Technology Centre in Surrey, England, manufacture the cars in a state-of-the-art facility whose design and precision performance standards are in keeping with those of the vehicles themselves.Close to the town of Woking, architects Foster + Partners created a circle-shaped central site, then separated it into two distinct black-and-white, yin-and-yang-shaped portions. Reviewing the main structure in 2003, The Guardian noted that the yin-yang configuration so noticeable from the air is in fact the interlocking of a curve-shaped factory building nestled against an artificial lake.The McLaren plant could not be more different, in style and in its awareness of its environment, from the smoke-churning car manufacturing plants that typified the 20th century.The elegant complex features a two-story, dome-topped visitor learning center designed to make the company an integral part of its local community and a focal point for high-technology manufacturing that can serve as a benchmark for other carmakers. Saplings screen the factory from the road, and the native fauna are at home in the surrounding greenbelt.
