Blog 14 Independent Component

LITERAL
(a) “I, Raul Suarez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) My mentor Brendon really helped me out during these past few months. We have been attending a lot of races and spend most of the time perfecting our setup.

(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours)

(d) During my independent component. Brendon and I attended the Top Notchracing series for just one round. The race was held in Hunington Beach at OCRC Raceway. It was a weekend race. We started practice Thursday, did a club race on Friday to prepare for the big race, and finised the race on Sunday at 1:00. Each day we stayed until they closed. thursday and friday we arrived at 3 , but in Sunday, we arrived at 5am.           

INTERPRETIVE
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.

The photos and race report aren't up on the website, but they should be put put up next week. This is the only photo of me thats up right now. This is the car I won in a rafffle at OCRC.

APPLIED
How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This experience was more helpful than building a few tracks. I learned so much more abuot racing after racing that weekend. With all of the new info and experience I am a better driver and have learned to drive for consistency rather than speed. For instance now I can run a full 5 minute race with no mistakes. And my lap times are still getting faster.