POC History In The Rearview Mirror By Don Kravig, Precision Motion
Last month, the POC conducted our annual tribute to LeMans, and at the podium we celebrated a tradition created by one of our early members the GREAT Dan Gurney, namely the Champagne dousing. The POC has always had a tradition of great competition, and family mentoring along with sportsmanship and some REALLY Fast women… Before we get to the FAST women, let me mention three things that have happened recently that speak to the traditions of the POC. If you had a chance to look at the results of our Utah event, you may have noticed that Anders Hainer won all three races in BSR. The very interesting sidebar to that was that he was assisting his fellow competitors to get faster, and while in the midst of that a PCA BSR racer walked up and wanted to know how the Hell somebody could beat him by 4 seconds on his home track. Oh by the way, just for fun Anders entered the PCA race as well and won that too (which really made him 4 for 4 for the weekend). If any of you care to look up Grand Am competitors from 2006 you will see the level of skill that Anders had to bring to Grand Am to win his championship. The people there are too numerous to name as they are essentially a who’s who of sports car racing. I invite you to just check it out. Which brings me to...the level of competition during the 1970s-1980s.
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