Sharing of Set-Ups?

I found the setups from TT, but I am looking for a good race setup. Is there a way to find out if a TT setup is a good race setup?

 

I don't think so. You will need to test them. Most of the times, though, as you know, setups made for two or three flying laps won't last too much on a longer race. But you can always use a TT setup as a base for you to build your race setup.

 

Might be worth a look for you but its a big subject

Re TT I use default for several reason. I did how ever load a top time setup at hock historic, it was not good for me and driving style makes a big difference as to suitability. (I was slower! lol)
Edit racing line and driving style can have a bigger difference on tt times than setup
It is possible to get on page1 of top times with default, if you learn the car to its full default potential

 

I’ve used some TT setups as a bit of a learning tool. Try some out, see what works for me and have a good look at what they’ve done, tweak a little and adapt for longer races, basically see what suits.

It’s a bit hit and miss but alongside some YouTube tutorials and various guides I’m slowly making sense of some of it....coast ramp and so on is still very much in the dark art arena for me though.

What I’ve found just as interesting is the way different people can set up such different feeling cars and get such similar times. I assume driving style ends up playing a large part in set ups....I’m surprised at how often I find a closer to 50/50 brake balance seems to suit me (not exactly 50/50 but much closer than defaults suggest would be optimal.)

 

Yeah, learning how much time can be lost to tinkering and testing is an eye opener. I think simply driving and practicing has produced the biggest results for my learning curve, but I can’t deny the fact that having a stable base set up that I’m comfortable driving not only helps me improve further but gives some nice morale boosts. Finding that previously troublesome car suddenly come alive is a great feeling.

 

TT setups are very often just lower pressure, lower aero and closed radiators.
You'll find only a few with good suspension, spring and differentials.
ana 100 times trail and error for this only one fast lap.
Unfortunatelly its not documented, how many trails some needed.

on my AC server with weekly sessions, with stracker i see the good and bad laps count.
Its wierd how many times people try just to get on page one of the leaderboard

 

Taken from my many years as an iRacing member the difference between TT setups and fullblown race setups was/is only:
1. fuel load (suit race length)
2. Ride Heigh (few clicks to not bottom out with race fuel)
3. Tire pressure (few clicks higher if TT use extremely lows)

AMS2: Radiator and brake ducts about middle of range.

ByTheWay: As said before then there is no reason to pretend that this is some black art.

 

Just as a general remark to this then you can find a lot of setups which if you compare them are mainly different because some parameters is changed to try to compensate for faulty settings in other parameters.
An example is that a lot of fake wizards advice you to raise the spring or roll bar stiffness in the rear if the car is too understeery.
But by doing this you does only lower the rear grip (= lower overall grip) to try to compensate for too low grip in front of the car.

ByTheWay: More than 10 years ago(!!) I posted a kind of "manual" about how to avoid this falacy.
Brunob´s New Approach To Racing Setup - N2K3-Setups

 

Fake Wizards. One of those fake wizards is actually a set up guide that was being sold on a different forum.

Very interesting, I’ve been slavishly following that advice without realising that I’m losing overall grip. I’ll have a look at your guide, bookmarked the site.

....and this is why newbies like me do see setups as a dark(ish) Art

 

Thats OK Magnus - my answer to you is NOT: And so what?
But just because somebody has earned some money on the subject is no proof that his advices is worth following.
Because if you scan my posts above (and my "manual") then you can easily see that my general attitude to this setup thing is to both keep it simple AND use some logic or common sense.

ByTheWay: And using some logic its pretty easy to discard any goofy postulate saying that I does advocate "Maximize Grip". Because to the contrary Im advocating: Dont Destroy Grip

 

Haha good one
But enough of this verbal shortcircuiting from RL to a video game
Just check the LBs to see how the outcome of this setup simplicity is actually working in the virtual world. At the moment it is working rather good on the Nordschleife in the F-V10-G1

ByTheWay: Using a lot of words to try verbally to prove it shouldnt work is just waste of time. Time that can be used on the virtual tracks instead