Assetto Corsa EASY car tuning guide cheat sheet | QUICK 10 step setup | No skill required

Start: 0:00
1. Do laps with default setup: 0:42
2. Adjust gearing: 1:53
3. Adjust tire pressures using sidekick: 3:07
4. Lower the car: 3:57
5. Adjust Aero: 4:30
6. Adjust Camber with Camber Extravaganza: 6:39
7. Adjust Brake bias 8:44
8. Adjust ARB 10:19
9. Adjust diff 11:54
10. Do low fuel runs 13:17

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[EmanHowells]

Hey thanks again for a very simple helpful video right after I watched it I applied it to The weekly race car on RRE and I found a full sec from what i have been getting So far

[JReaLBiz]

Awesome video! Setups are tough to get into, especially when you're dialing it in and have to do 3-4 lap runs to make minor adjustments. But this guide is really helpful to get the gist of tuning a car.

1. I always set gears: a) to nearly top out at the end of the longest straight, and b) to have comfortable downshift points around the course. Something where I can select a gear for each corner that allows me to put power down without having to worry too much about wheelspin. Getting a comfortable balance between the peak torque and hp bands is ideal, but sometimes you have to sacrifice power for stability. For a novice tuner, adjusting individual gears is not the way to go, final gear is what you wanna focus on.

2. I used to always use default tire pressures until I realized I wasn't getting the most contact with the road. If you don't opt for Sidekick, my rule of thumb is to try to get tire temps within 20 degrees F (around 10 degrees C) across the tire, with the inside running hotter than the outside. This goes hand-in-hand with camber and toe.

3. It's important to make sure the car doesn't bottom out, but a lower car is usually a faster car. Lowering the ride height does affect suspension travel, and doing things like running split/stagger (lower front, higher rear) can affect handling as well.

4. I adjust more on aero than anything else with my AC setups. You want just enough rear downforce to keep the rear planted in fast corners (too much slows you down on straights), and just enough front downforce to keep the nose guided through a corner (too little=understeer, too much=oversteer). Usually you won't see the effect of your aero until you wear your tires a bit.

5. Camber is a difficult adjustment. I use it in unison with toe angle and tire pressure to keep tire temps fairly even across the tread, with the inner temp about 5 degrees hotter than the middle and 10 degrees hotter than the outer. I find this usually works best.

6. Brake bias is pretty simple. You want it as far to the rear as possible without losing control under braking. Too much to the front can cause a lockup or create understeer getting into corners.

7. ARB is something I feel can be adjusted to your driving style. If you tend to attack curbs, less is more so to speak. You want to manage roll (especially at the front), but going too stiff can cause unpredictable corner exits. More roll can help the car turn mid-corner, but also makes steering a bit "numb". The car won't react as quickly to steering input.

8. I barely adjust diff from default. Usually I'll lower it if the car tends to shoot out of a corner wide, or to help the car rotate mid-corner as I come off the brakes.

9. Underrated tip! Lowering fuel with the adjustments you made shows you what the car will do at peak performance due to the lower weight. I tend to make my micro-adjustments when in qualifying trim (enough fuel for 3-4 laps, on the softest compound).

[csmith]

I'm not the best but been racing for +15yrs. how u drive the track is so important before changing the setup. It will take some 500 laps to know the entire track! Make small changes each run. This i hated but now enjoy figuring out each tracks setup. Great Guide BTW!

[DenverLapse]

very helpful thank you!
The Camber Extravaganza app 6:39 has really improved my lap times (>20%). This vid is the best how-to-use Camber Extravaganza. But it took some time to understand its numbers. This may help or be TMI:

Yes, getting green colors on all turns is the goal, but that's impossible as all turns are different. So, you have to decide which turns on that circuit are more valuable, in lap time, to set camber for.

The little number under each tire is showing the actual camber at that moment, not the current camber setting.
Only when the tire goes green, the little number is saying "this is the correct camber to use in setup", but only for the outside tire of a turn, as close to racing speed as possible. Reading that tiny number while driving is hard, so, watching a replay can help.
The 2 larger numbers in the app, if set to Delta, can help somewhat, telling you to add or subtract camber in setup. A positive delta is saying "move the slider to the right", negative delta "move the slider to the left" in the AC alignment page. But the delta number is an average of both tires (fronts or rears), not tire specific. Even after you have correctly set your camber for a tire, and it is green for the important corner/s, the Delta won't show zero because its an average of both tires.
Since everything is related, after other adjustments (aero, ride height, gear ratios, springs, anti roll bars etc.) recheck camber again.
Proper tire pressure is extremely important. If under or over inflated, they will be too hot or too cold; and even though Camber Extravaganza is showing happy green tires you'll slide wide in all the turns.

[ryanblumenow]

Very good advice. An infographic one-page pdf download for this would be so useful. Almost like a pre-/during-race checklist.

[MiguelBaptista]

Thank you for this video.
Just a very important note:
Decreasing height WILL causa understeer.
So if you're struggling with that on all other settings, the Height is the main culprit. At least, for me it was, in every setup I made. And compensating that by decreasing AERO may not be an option many times.

[Kallermatsch]

Thank you for this video. My Mercedes was always sliding out and I notioced the camber of the rear was at 0. I changed it to -1.2 and it works like a charm. No more sliding and much more predictable handling.

[embir]

Great video! I mainly race in AMS2 but recently I dip my toes into AC. Guides like this are really useful! Especially given the fact that physics of each sim are suprisingly varied and often require different changes in car sertings. Personally the settings that always give the most dramatic change for me are break balance and rear wing.

[jonathanvisser]

I am a little late to the party but... MATE THANK YOU. I have struggled to set up my car, not knowing where to start. but now I what to do, so for that my good sir, Thank you. my before and after time with this method was 2 sec of mine time. after i have set it up. not trying to get is even lower just trying to get my set up right. Just thanks!

[dzfeetz]

Thanks man. I always use rsr setup on nordschleife tourist with z4 gt3 before, only can do a 6.21 6.22 lap.
Yesterday i saw your video, just change the camber setting . Then even with a lot of mistakes, i did my first under 6.20 lap . Really helps a lot.

[ethankim]

Really really appreciate you for posting this video. Ive always asked my friends for the bnest tuning of the car. Now I have a generic idea of what to do.

[speedygonzales]

One of the BEST (POSSIBLY THEE BEST) explanatory video I've seen so far! Thank you man!

[macelltavares]

thank you very much man. I followed your step by step and managed to improve the handling of a McLaren 650 at Brands Hatch, it was almost impossible for me to drive the car with the fixed setup.

[fredpel]

Cheers Lau, finally someone with good advice for setting up a car in an understandable language for a

[grafitea]

I just bought this game with all the dlc for me to use with my g39 wheel/pedal. Super excited to get into this, coming from gran turismo sport 🤘

[teaks]

Thanks Laurence! Being relatively new to the pastime, setup seemed pretty daunting. After watching this I am actually able to understand it and give it a go!!! Cheers!!!

[lpishpoo]

Massive Thank you Laurence, used your approach with the Ferrari F310B of 1997. Started off with a default lap and getting 1:26's 1:27's, bit by bit got to 1:23:647. .3 seconds off Villeneuves Pole Lap that year! Thanks for sharing your advice :D

[alexx]

Great guide, very easy to follow. However I do know my fair amount on how to tune and what does what so it could be hard for new people to follow.

[EpicFatLip]

Okay, let's try this!! Thanks for a bit of insight on how you do your setups.

[fleamcbaggins]

Thanks fer putting this out there. Deffo something ive been needing to impove