The Ultimate Car Setup Guide For Beginners - Part I

Car Setup tutorial for sim racing and real life racing! Part 1 - Rake, Ride Height, Anti-Roll (or anti-sway) Bars, Springs and Spring Rates, Dampers, Wings and Downforce Level.
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[@jameslagunas4379]

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[@SuellioAlmeida]

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[@rickdubbink]

This is litterally so perfectly timed, I just started driving F4 in iRacing and I really hate being down on the leaders just because of the setup, i'm always in between the fast and slow drivers. The default setups are alright but it depends a lot on the track and I just want to learn how to adjust the setup to my liking

[@braveheart4603]

I'm also driving F4 but I only got into sim racing in September and know I'm still in the learning the handling techniques phase lol hopefully given another few months I'm consistent enough and feel the handling predictable enough to come back to this.

[@thomasberry8873]

​@@braveheart4603starting with iracing... Brave

[@NoChance-oz4dd]

If you're not in top split you don't need to worry about setup

[@rickdubbink]

@@NoChance-oz4dd i am always top split

[@NoChance-oz4dd]

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[@oishkip]

I never thought I’d find a video this in depth, you are a true savior

[@VelocidadeAlta]

You are the man who will make me faster! Cheers from Brazil!

[@ki3291]

Very good info! But please turn down the music volume. It was really distracting at times...

[@dvelez811]

Ready for part 2!

[@Empire_of_Ravens]

Perfect timing!

[@izachROCKS]

Great editing on this! I watched part of the recording stream, the edit makes it way better ❤

[@jester3265]

Absolutely fantastic, Brilliant

[@allaboutf1andstuff453]

great video. can't wait for part 2

[@Robin_S78]

brilliant explanation!

[@PhantomDRK]

Thank you for this I can't wait for part 2

[@dekik.979]

Huge lesson🙏

[@soflodrippy4305]

love this guy, your videos are extremely helpful and educational. lifelong subscriber

[@user-ex8eq1yy8d]

Best timing, I struggle with cars with either too much oversteer, and/or understeer

[@Bumpy972Johnson]

The best guide I've seen . Big thanks from france man, you help me so much to understand. You the best !

[@ExOrbit1980]

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[@3rddude]

I got the book too and it’s really great!!

[@tylermanthei5444]

Thanks for the tips Suellio. Setups are a thing I’m never fully satisfied with. Using the fastest setups adds a degree of certainty that any lost time can be found by the driver. Of course it’s a double edged sword because these setups are often sensitive and more difficult to drive. Always my favorite place to start and then I’ll make personal changes from there if I absolutely need to.

[@twoxtone_]

thank you thank you thank you. haooy i purchased the course. i have watched this 3 times and have taken mad notes. im tired of relying on others setups without knowing what and why they made changes. i want to learn so that i can do it myself and understand. this was very digestible

[@elicarterracing5001]

The commentary, the smoothness, and the graphic are the best I have ever seen. These are so much fun to watch! Thank you for all the effort put into these! As people say, 2nd time is the charm lol, Jimmie Johnson (48) and Carl Edwards (99)

[@hnic12344321]

I have to say thank you. You give so much great information free I think your pay course would be like taking a college course. I'll have to find out for myself the next week 13.

[@nikoyay]

Ótimo video mlk

[@rosetzu_nagasawa]

fantastic!

[@robertallen3133]

Looking forward to part 2

[@GnarAspira]

perfect video

[@user-si9lf8bw9p]

This guy's a legend

[@RonnyDorissen]

Whow , Thx for the Video

[@JTthestreetking]

Always so well explained, you are really good at this. Thank you and God bless you!!

[@SuellioAlmeida]

Thanks man!

[@Mahid]

Finally time to learn how to do setups 😀

[@arekdbz3]

Great guide. As for las part I would add that in iracing you have like a meta setup for a week and it is mostly about downforce. If meta is let's say for wing at 3 but you struggle with it, you can not add downforce because you will be a sitting duck on straights. You have to try to counter this with mechanical grip a bit and just cope with it.

[@pjdemorais3776]

Would be cool to watch you setting up a car in iracing. Watching the process and steps

[@coach_ace]

Great video Suellio! If you could touch a bit on differential settings that would be juiced 🙏

[@Sheleg_Alexandr]

Great video! Please tell us how to use dampers telemetry histograms to understand whether the settings are well chosen.

[@navarych9041]

The best honey-dumpers interpretation! It is definitely LIKE)

[@cypylix82]

Awesome video as alwyas. I hope i can use it to setup for Dallara 317 formula car because i just start a mini champ with that car and i need a lot of tips :)

[@gifpolish]

Key here for me, focus on fixed setups and driving the car and rotating it. Thanks.

[@braveheart4603]

Me too, his vid from around 3 weeks ago about coaching a beginner with a logitech g29 was excellent for learning how to induce under steer / over steer and get the correct rotation at all the phases through the corner. I've been working on that with the F4 cars, I'm only a few months in and i think best to leave the set up fixed until i feel the handling consistent and totally predictable.

[@giannisweightlifting3996]

Im not a begginer and i didnt watch the video yet. came here just to say that your book is AMAZING!

[@VGT1]

this is very true, i have recently purchased iracing ( almost a week ago ) and have played in some practice lobbies with the mx5 with fixed setups. while some people get higher or lower times theres always room to improve on where to start breaking, throttle control etc. i don't remember the name of the map but i had started with a minute and some seconds to 0.57.200 something after almost 100 laps . good video!!

[@yeomanvanzyl367]

Those lap times are most likely Lime Rock😉

[@VGT1]

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[@mattihelenius2]

🤔 so basicially if I want more oversteer like I was tough.. LONGTIME AGO.. I need follow the PROCESS! copyyyy thanks sue

[@levkizikov]

Great vid! Very helpful. And... I have a question about gearing. There are some cars with point of ideal shift located not at the end of the rev range, usually those are turbo cars. How should i adjust my gearing for cars like these? e. g. Ferrari 488 GT3 or modern Formula 1... Also, how gears affect cornering abilities of a car and is it a good idea to adjust gear ratios for specific corners?

[@recarsion]

Wait, I thought you needed softer springs on bumpier tracks so the wheels keep ground contact more easily? With stiff springs, won't you just be bouncing around? Or what you actually need is soft enough to keep ground contact, but stiff enough to stop bottoming out?

[@kshay1394]

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[@c_berk11]

Congrats on getting into PESC

[@liamkeagleracing4192]

I need to learn how to neutral steer and learn brake bais I get to scared before corners and overslow I also use way to much time thinking about front tires and cane never set a similar lap time

[@guidefreitas]

Great video. The actual content starts at 09:50.

[@samueljayachandran2849]

What about variable spring rates and damper rates so that you prevent bottoming out or porpoising but also allow the bumps to be absorbed more gently without the force feedback breaking your hands? Also what if you ran slow front rebound damper rate very high to keep the fronts pressed down, will that work?

[@BeanDip96_]

Here’s a question Suellio, When building a setup how do you approach creating a faster baseline for a downforce car like the radical or LMP? I can tune an existing setup pretty reliably, but when given an iRacing Baseline for example, how do you approach building a faster platform overall? Like my assumption is to choose your expected downforce level, then chase max lateral G at low medium and high speeds, then tune the balance from there? I’m building a setup for Sebring and need some help prioritizing the steps to take to do it well lol. Thanks for the videos!

[@DrR1pper]

Suellio, I believe you've made a mistake on the part of rake affecting longitudinal (front/rear) weight distribution and if you go back and look at part in your video where you change the rake and look at what the combined left and right tyre weights were changed to reported by iracing, you will see the weight distribution for each axle remained exactly the same before and after the rake changes. I've seen/heard this mistake by many other people (including drivers such as Driver 61 too) numerous times and I too once thought it would affect front/rear weight distribution. But if you think about it, changing the height of the suspension shouldn't actually make any difference to front/rear weight distribution because how the static load/mass of a car is distributed between front and rear tyres is wholly dependent only on the ratio of the distances of the front and rear tyre contact patch points to the center of mass of the car, perpendicular to the axis/direction of gravity. How then is it affecting under/oversteer behaviors of the car because it most certainly does affect this. Well, it affects this by changing the height of the roll center of an axle relative to the center of gravity height. This then has the affect of determining how much the lateral force from cornering, goes into rolling an axle or not by affecting how much of the lateral force goes through the suspension axis or control arms. The higher the roll center, the greater the percentage of the lateral force will going through the suspension rather than the control arm, and therefore the more it will cause that axle to roll leading to more lateral weight transfer for that axle. This is why Max Verstappen runs with high rake. He gets additional oversteer during cornering via reduction in rear grip relative to front grip by increasing the height of the rear roll center vs front end roll center, which in turn, during cornering causes more lateral weight transfer on the rear end than for his front end, leading to a decrease in rear grip relative to front grip.

[@mattcampbell9171]

Just starting to watch this. How much of this can apply to Oval Racking? I'll know when I'm done but I'm curious for advice

[@RafaelOliviera952]

on stiffer ARB, i feel that, if the car wants to understeer, it underrsterr faster BUT... u cant catch it faster...same with oversteer...if it oversteer, it does faster, but more "catchble"....i generally prefere a stiffer car, even on GTs..even knowing that tyres becomes hotter...becouse i know what the car is doing before its to late..

[@casagrandefeltrin01]

Amazing! Let me ask u something Suelio: Do we have portuguese subtitles in your online course?

[@SuellioAlmeida]

Yes!

[@salmopr]

yeah sure i have a qestion , how can you deal with gearing 1st 2nd 3rd and so on,, well this question is in advance of part 2 , im asuming, thank you bo'

[@robertallen3133]

How do l get that brake checker the one that is below the rear view mirror. I want to get that on my setup. Thank you. 31st January 2024

[@nevillemolokwu8598]

Are oversteery setups always faster? Can less oversteery setups be as fast as oversteery setups?

[@dolbearrr]

Its a sign

[@Vindisify]

Holup! Shouldn't you run softer springs on a bumpy track to absorb the bumps, and prevent bottoming out with ride height and packers? Overall a good video for beginners, looking forward to part 2.

[@Haulinbassracing]

Thats a shock adjustment in real life that would be highspeed compression and rebound

[@Vindisify]

Oh I see, thank you. Now I know I have been doing it wrong for 10+ years :D

[@gokhankatp]

Suelio can you just give your pc and monitor setup, i dont see jagged lines in your gameplay but i see mine.

[@BTFWayne]

Let's goooo

[@chlebaQQ]

Is it working on acc also?

[@spacedcityskater]

Bro I can't believe you did this for free

[@spacedcityskater]

I subbed because thus video thank you so much. I decided to give iRacing "a shot" at the beginning of April since I can do my normal hobbies because of my health and I (to my suprise) fell in love and became obsessed

[@ming454]

I'd really like to have guide for ovals

[@arvidurs]

How does fuel affect the setup?

[@winnythekahuna8073]

The thing I hate about sim racing setup is that you are supposed to feel all the changes just from the steering wheel and vision. Its hard to tell if a sim car needs a stiffer rear or how much the settings make it so or how much increasing wing angle affects the car in speed and turn. The audio from the tires doesn't give enough info either. But..great video explanation.

[@ryantaemaxsu9137]

I think this made a light bulb turn on in my mind.

[@KrasnyMajak-he8xh]

where is part 2?

[@doc.NasserReda]

Que vídeo, uma aula incrível de setup, guiada e entendimento de carro. Você teria algum conteúdo em português? Seu livro tem versão para o português?

[@carlosalvarez8076]

Regrettably I can only give one like haha.

[@Crxpt54]

Early let’s go

[@CaptainCrunch99]

Telemetry is your friend

[@socaldatsun6910]

First

[@SpookyRipples9]

But you must have a comman sences, just to to avoid wrong setup wihich can make u lose your interest in the game, or can develop bad habits.. One of such common sense would be "Setup is good when it allows you to achive the top speed not any less than 2kmph than the aliens players able to achive, say 270kmph for Ferrari gt3 on Spa"

[@twoobliviousidiots782]

Great video Suellio, however am I the only one that's a tiny bit bothered that you drew the car with the front end facing left?

[@silverfoxvr8541]

I just wanna drive, I dont wanna spend 20 hours a weak making setups. F that. My $8000 rig sits because of this. And cheating and crazy META setups. F sim racing. I beta tested iRacing. Been around a long time. Sim Racing used to be different, now it's full of send it COD morons.

[@deviate576]

Waaaaaaah! The senile furry pretend race car driver doesn’t want to learn to understand race cars. Waaaaaaah!