Setup Advisor

The Setup Advisor walks you through setting up a car, one step at a time. You drive a short run, the advisor looks at your laps and asks how the car felt, and it recommends one change. You make that change in the game, drive again, and tell it whether the change helped.

It never changes your setup files: you make every change yourself in the game’s own setup screens.

Only need tyre pressures?

If you’re happy with your setup and just want the right pressures for today’s conditions, the Tyre Tuner is quicker.

Why one change at a time

If you change several things at once and the car gets better, or worse, you can’t tell which change did it. Making one change per run means every run tells you something.

The steps

The advisor works through the same steps race engineers use, in order:

Step	What it looks at
Make It Drivable	Optional. Calms a car that’s too unstable to drive consistent laps: wandering under braking, a rear that steps out when you lift, twitchiness at speed.
Tyres	Hot pressures against your target, and how evenly the tyres heat across the tread (camber).
Ride Height and Rake	Whether the car bottoms out, and its ride height front and rear.
Aero	Balance in fast corners, and top speed.
Anti-Roll Bars	Balance in the middle of slow and medium-speed corners.
Springs and Dampers	How the car copes with braking, kerbs and quick changes of direction.
Alignment and Differential	Turn-in, and traction on the way out of corners.

Tyres and Ride Height and Rake come first for a reason: until the tyres are in their window and the car isn’t bottoming out, every later judgement is unreliable. The later steps unlock once both are done.

If a car has none of the settings a step adjusts, the step says so and counts as done.

Using it

1. Open the game’s Setup Advisor tab in the web app and choose the car and track.
2. Drive a run of about five laps. Three laps are often not enough to bring the tyres up to temperature.
3. Save your setup in the game. If you’re on the default setup, save it too, so the advisor can quote your actual settings (“Front anti-roll bar 3 → 4”) rather than just “stiffen the front anti-roll bar”.
4. Back in the advisor, tick the laps of your run (the newest are ticked for you; Reload laps picks up laps driven since you opened the page), choose the setup file you drove on, and answer the questions you can. Answers are optional but change the advice. Click an answer again to clear it.
5. Click Analyse Run. The advisor shows the change for your next run, with the evidence it came from. If that doesn’t fix it, it shows what to try next.
6. Make the change in the game, save the setup and drive another run.
7. Tell the advisor how it went, under Driven a run with this change? How did the car feel? (see below).

When a step is right, or good enough for you, click Accept this step and move on.

Screenshot

A Tyres step result: the change for the next run, the evidence table and the feedback question.

Telling it how the change felt

After driving with a change, choose one answer:

Answer	What happens
Worse	The advisor tells you to put the last change back first, then suggests something different. It won’t suggest that change again in this step.
No difference	The same, but the change is only moved to the bottom of the list rather than ruled out.
A little better	Analyse your new laps: more of the same is ranked first.
A lot better	The advisor suggests accepting the step, or analysing the new laps for one more change.
Fixed it	The advisor suggests accepting the step.

If the advisor offered more than one change and you made one of the alternatives, pick it under Which change did you make? first, so the feedback is about the change you actually made.

Your answers to the questions carry over to the next run, so you only need to change the ones that feel different.

Result of your last change shows the readings before and after the change, beside how it felt. If the numbers and your feeling disagree, trust your feeling: the advisor never overrules you.

Tips

• Drive consistently. The advisor compares runs, so drive each run the same way. It drops laps that are well off your pace (a spin, traffic) and judges the rest.
• Judge the advice. Every recommendation shows the readings behind it. If you disagree, skip it or accept the step.
• Target hot pressure: the Tyres step uses the default from the desktop app’s game tab, which you can change for each car and track. GT3 targets don’t suit every car.
• Core temperature window (optional): on the Tyres step, set a window for the car and track. Core temperatures are then rated against it, and where the car has brake ducts you’ll get a suggestion to open or close them.

Game differences

Game differences

• Assetto Corsa Evo: save the car’s default setup once in the game before picking it here. ACE keeps its default setups where other apps can’t read them.
• Le Mans Ultimate and Project Motor Racing: the Tyres step can set pressures from tread temperatures instead of a target hot pressure: the pressure is set so the middle of the tread runs at the average of its edges.

Automobilista 2

AMS2 stores setups in a format other software can’t read, so its Setup Advisor works from your answers alone. The steps are the same, but each one asks how the car feels, and the advice describes the change to make (“soften the front anti-roll bar one click”) rather than quoting your current settings. Ticking laps isn’t needed: click Get Advice once you’ve answered.