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News archives April
2006 The Hard Left Racing Team is actually working to get the boat to the paint shop. Derek decided it was time for a real nice paint job on the boat .
December
2005 The 2005
season has now come and gone and the HydroplaneQuebec.com Team finished the
season on a positive note finishing third in Canadian Boating Federation High
points Championship. Even
though it was a season long struggle with our engine program we were able to
finish once again in the top three. With consecutive podium finishes in Gaspe
(2nd)(North American Championship), Venise-en-Quebec (2nd) and Wildwood NJ (3rd)
we were able to propel ourselves from 6th to 3rd place overall. As I
said before, this was definitely not our strongest year. The engine could have
been a lot stronger but I am not one to dwell on the past, we will be back once
again next year with a stronger campaign and I am certain that we will be back
to our old 2004 form. Also, I
would like to congratulate all of the other competitors in the 2.5 Litre class
especially Dan Kanfoush for his stellar year with the Fast Eddie #1 and Tom
Diabo (Sonic Wave) CS-20 for second place finish in the high points battle. This
was Tom’s first ride to a top three finish in High Points, keep up the good
work. Looking
ahead towards the up coming 2006 season we have already started work on the hull
and engine program. The engine is out and we have already started working on
this. As for the boat, minor repairs are being dealt with, new wiring and some
of the hardware will be upgraded for next season. The final step will be a new
paint scheme in the spring before the start of the year. As for
myself, I want to thank all of the team members for all of their hard work, time
and dedication and thank all of the sponsors for supporting the team in 2005. See you
in the first turn! Derek
Anderson
I went
out several times during the day (saturday june 11). Adjustments where made every time I came in,
and the boat got better throughout the day. The motor which I had a question
mark on ever since The only
trouble I was having was that the boat was still a little slow out of the turns.
I now have a good idea what the problem was and I have since corrected it (carburetor).
A new spacer had been made over the winter between the carb and the intake which
changed the angle of the carb which upset the float level causing a shortage of
fuel when exiting the turns. Now that the problem is corrected I should be
testing this weekend or at the start of next week to verify the correction. There
were six teams there on Saturday. Mike Monahan CS 60, Dan Kanfoush S 1, Kent
Henderson CS 00, Patrick Haworth CE 57, Ed Knight Can Am 333 and myself. All I
can say is what a great place to test. It was a beautiful day about 90, and we
all had a great time. Thanks to Bert for a great day. See you
turn one
June 8, 2005 Test Session in Brockville. "HydroplaneQuebec.com
presents Hard Left II racing" will be in Brockville, On this coming
weekend (June 11), for an all day test session to get the boat worked out
and up to speed. We want to make sure that everything is ok after the bad luck
we encountered in Stay tuned and we will keep you up to date. Derek
Anderson
May
21 – 22 - 2005
Lake Hopatcong , New Jersey Hard
Left Racing Lake Hopatcong race report Hello
race boat fans. Another season has started for the HARD LEFT II RACING TEAM. This past weekend we enjoyed beautiful Lake Hopatcong N.J. As the scene of our first race. Having
only received the new engine last sunday, the team was extremely busy leading up
to the weekend. Small jobs on the boat seemed to turn into one problem after
another as we geared up for the weekend. Fortunatly by late Friday afternoon everything was in place and we headed 7 hours south for our fisrt event. Arriving
in New Jersey at Unfortunately we did not have time to test before the weekend and this would have to be done in our first qualifing heat.
As for the race itself everything seemed fine and we finished with a
strong forth place finish. For
myself, the boat was lacking a lot of exceleration coming out of the turns and
top end down the straitaways. So we started dialing the boat back in and slowly
returning to a setup that had been
used last year. This was done in order to give us a idea of where we stood. As for
saturdays final, things seemed better in the warm up. Unfortunatly Hard Left
racing does not have a water pump on the motor and was not able to park with the
rest of the top guys with 3 minute remaining on the clock. So I had to settle
for lane 6. (I had seen at the drivers meeting that there was a 20 mph rule in
effect for the weekend. I guess it should have stated 1 mph as this was the speed
used by the first five boats and nothing was called ). Leading up to the first turn things got interesting. It seemed the entire field wanted lane one and coming down the straitaway lanes started to disapear. Myself and S-9 (Rewinder) had a close encounter as both of our lanes seemed to turn into one. I decided at that moment to head through a roostertail in order to avoid him.
As for
Saturday night we enjoyed a great meal put on by the race site and then some
Nascar action brought to us by the Kennedy`s on there large screen. Sunday
started as any normal race day as we prepared the boat and got ready our
qualifing heat. Unfortunatly
Hard Left Racing encountered it`s first and hopefuly last problem of the season,
as
the crane operator had a miscue and put the boat into the sand on the beach.
Leading to a blocked water inlet line which caused the motor to over heat
forcing me to shut it down. On the upside of this, I had kept an eye on the gauges
saving the motor from being cooked. All
though this was not the way the weekend should have gone, we believe it can only
get better. So for
now, we will get the boat ready for some testing this weekend in order to be
ready for our next race in Ogdensburgh NY. Keep
checking in and we will keep all of you fans up to date with the team and it`s
future developements. See you
in turn one.... Derek
Anderson
April 2005 I am
very pleased to welcome you to the new hard left II web site. This
gives me the opportunity to announce my new association with
hydroplanequebec.com and Christian Bergeron (web master) The up
and coming season should be a truly interesting year for the
hydroplanequebec.com presents hard left racing team. If all
goes well we should be in contention once again for the championship. It’s
hard to believe that we will be racing in only a few months and are currently
getting ready for this winter projects are getting done and we definitely will
be ready to take on the competition in 2005. Check in
soon, as we will keep all of you fans up to date with what’s going on. Derek
Anderson
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