1/4 lap into race 1, hit a spinning car around a blind corner and got stuck on a kerb, facing the wall. Short $@#%$ race.

RACE RESULTS
SEASON STANDINGS

Average lap time for race 1 was 1:25.870, and for race 2 was 1:26.903 (so you can see why your ballast went up or down).

Penalties
Race 1: Freezer (-4) for running into the back of Simone (+4) and Will (+4)

Round Points
Guybrush Threepwood    82
Bacchulum    67
Freezer    43
StanDaam    62
EdWood    30
Skaife    55.5
Jeremy    41.5
Marty    59
Wally    58.5
Phil.8    55.5
Matthew111    56
christopheraser    46
Grat    36.5
Simone    34.5
Bafs17    62
Joe    0
Mael    34
Grubbet    0
G0RGAK    38
Will    36.5

Congratulations to Guybrush for the round win, as well as both race wins.

Season Standings
1. Guybrush, 138
2. Bacchulum, 122
3. Freezer/StanDaam, 121

Team Achilles Heels leads from Caterpillar Racing, 253.5 to 237.5.

A spring has a frequency which is a standard way of comparing it's stiffness - e.g. 2 Hz. Road car springs often have frequencies around 2 - 3 Hz, while race cars like the FR3.5 are much stiffer, at 5 - 8 Hz.

AC's Car Engineer app shows you these spring freuquencies, front and rear. If you can't see the Car Engineer app, you have to edit steamapps\common\assettocorsa\system\cfg\assetto_corsa.ini to set ENABLE_DEV_APPS=1.

If you load the default FR setup without ballast, the spring rates are 8.1 Hz in the front and 5.4 Hz in the rear. Now get on the practice server and set your ballast with the following commands:

/client_list (find out which car number you are, e.g. 11)
/ballast <car num> <ballast>, e.g. /ballast 11 46, for 46 kg

Now look at your spring rates again. Because your car is heavier, the spring rates have gone down (the springs are compressed more). If you want to keep the same spring rates as the default setup, you'll need to stiffen your springs. Raising front and rear springs by one click gets the spring rates back to 8.0 and 5.3, which is close enough to the default setup.

Stiffening your springs also raises your car height, so you might want to take a few clicks back off the front and rear ride heights to compensate for the stiffer springs.

Apologies to anyone who got caught out by the wrong race laps - I accidentally had laps from the wrong round put in!

RACE RESULTS
SEASON STANDINGS

No penalties! Nice starts.

Round Points
EdWood    60.5
Marty    56.5
Freezer    56
Guybrush Threepwood    56
Wally    56
christopheraser    55
Skaife    54.5
Phil.8    54
Rolz    53
Simone    53
Jeremy    48.5
Grat    47.5
StanDaam    45
Matthew111    44
Bacchulum    34
G0RGAK    30
Mael    30
Grubbet    27
Bafs17    24
Will    22
Joe    17
Schmittez    8
Chap111    4

Congratulations to EdWood on the round win, and Freezer and christopheraser for the race wins.

Season Podium
1. Jeremy, 68
2. Freezer, 65
3. Skaife, 62

Caterpillar Racing are leading the team points from Struggle Street Racing Crew.

I had ENABLE_GYRO=1 in my assettocorsa\system\cfg\assetto_corsa.ini for a while, but I changed it back to:

[FF_EXPERIMENTAL]
ENABLE_GYRO=0
DAMPER_MIN_LEVEL=0.0

and the steering felt better again. I'd lost that lovely "holding the drift" type feeling that I used to have. ENABLE_GYRO=1 adds extra damping to the wheel, for direct drive wheels. I found it was making the steering a bit to sludgy and weighty, and prefer it off.

Race 1, 10 laps
Race 2, 19 laps (3x fuel)

Weather (clouds and temp only, at 10:00 and 13:00): http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/Italy/Imola-Circuit.aspx