Setup Guide

How to calculate setup?

One of the most important things a rookie should know is to calculate his setup properly. A perfect setup can drastically improve lap timings, and it doesn't cost anything at all.

One of the basic things you must understand before learning how to setup a car is the "Driver Happy Zone"

When you setup a car, a driver will, at some point not comment on a particular part. He might even say that he is satisfied with the setup. However, this does not mean that the setup you have achieved is the ideal setup. This is because a driver is happy over a big range of setups. The term "happy zone" or "happy range" is used to refer to the range over with the driver is happy with the setup. This range changes according to some factors, about which I will discuss later on.

So, suppose the ideal setting of a gearbox is 150, and the driver has a happy zone of 50, this means that the driver will be happy for all the values between 125 and 175 for the gearbox. Since speed for gearbox of 150 will be better than that for 125 or 175, you will be faster if you find the exact value (150) instead of using just any value your driver is happy with.

If the TI and Experience of a driver is low, it makes finding the ideal value even more important because of the time you can save.

So, how to calculate the ideal setup?

Step 1:

Find out the happy zone for your driver using the following formula:

H = 135 - 0.3*Technical Insight - 0.1*Experience

where H is the happy zone of the driver.

Step 2:

Find out the highest (or lowest) point the driver is happy at for all the parts. This is quite easy to achieve in 5-6 laps if you have raced on that track before.

Step 3:

Subtract (if you have found the highest setup value) or add (if you have found the lowest setup value) half the value of happy zone (calculated from the above formula) and you will get the perfect setup for your car.

Notes:

1) A setup of a car is a function to many attributes. These include your car CCPs, the wear on your car, your driver's attributes as well as the temperature and the humidity. It is, hence advisable that you calculate ideal setup for each and every race instead of relying on someone else to give you the ideal setup, because that will be impossible.

2) Some stats of the Technical Director affect the happy zones of a driver too. I will not tell you exactly how (however, I will tell you that the happy zone always decreases) since you will get a TD only when you get to Pro and you should be able to figure things out by yourself by then.

Some setups:

Settings are different between different cars and drivers!!!
But these are good to start with:

Tracks are in random order.
(you can find a track with Ctrl+F)

Poznan, Poland
700-700-700-300-600-700

Monaco, Monte Carlo
950
950
400
525
325
600

Brasilia, Brazil
700 700 550 700 700 999

Interlagos, Brazil
Front Wing: 565
Rear Wing: 573
Engine: 613
Brakes: 690
Gear: 466
Suspension: 388

Bahrein, Sakhir
Wing Front.. 195
Wing Rear.. 199
Engine.. 525
Brake... 690
Gear .... 655
Susp.. .. 420

Paul ricard, France
Wing Front.. 394
Wing Rear.. 394
Engine.. 875
Brake... 333
Gear .... 692
Susp.. ..753

zandvoort, Netherlands
Front Wing: 672
Rear Wing: 675
Engine: 625
Brakes: 610
Gear: 617
Suspension: 725

Anderstop, Sweden
Front wing: 406
Rear wing: 406
Engine: 992
Brakes: 803
Gear: 572
Suspension: 340

Brands hatchs, United Kingdom
580
580
775
500
725
775

Barcelona, Spain
655 655 785 652 480 365

Istanbul, Turkey
Front Wing: 488
Rear Wing: 490
Engine: 601
Brakes: 733
Gear: 405
Suspension: 650

Nurburgring, Germany
675
695
652
657
535
490

Fiorano, Italy
450 450 822 276 358 999

Spa, Belgium
800
800
725
650
465
350

Mexico City, Mexico
800
800
700
500
525
400

Mugello, Italy
580 580 800 950 800 600

Kyalami, South Africa
830-810-642-607-200-697

Fuji, Japan
300 300 680 680 700 630

Shanghai, China
450 450 700 650 325 350

Sepang, Malaysia
557-537-800-570-490-525

Zolder, Belgium
700 700 800 400 600 750

Jerez, Spain
840 840 650 700 650 490

Buenos Aires, Argentina
900 900 625 315 350 790

Hungaroring, Hungary
750 850 500 700 400 600

A1-ring, Austria
390 390 800 750 650 550

Hockenheim, Germany
450 450 780 350 580 410

Adelaide, Australia
600 600 550 400 450 800

Indianapolis, USA (RAIN)
392 592 790 537 354 614

Estoril, Portugal
440 560 580 370 540 500

Singapore
850 850 550 600 600 999

Valencia, Spain
850
850
550
700
450
550

Magny cours, France
500 500 700 300 500 900

Oesterreichring, Austria
450 450 900 350 600 900

Monza, Italy
300 300 900 600 650 750

Suzuka, Japan
600 600 800 600 250 700

Melbourne, Australia
550 550 800 600 550 500

Imola, San Marino
625 695 595 700 455 500

Silverstone, United Kingdom
300 475 800 535 755 500

Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi
800 800 650 550 200 650

Brno, Czech Republic
689 689 619 431 269 580