Sim-racing setups are plentiful, covering a wide range of virtual motorsport disciplines. We have those for GT racing, Formula, Formula Drift, rallying, endurance, and so on. This also applies to the configuration or settings of the vehicle you’re driving, as not all circuits are the same. Setting up a race car in sim-racing is a time-consuming and energy-intensive operation, especially if you’re someone who’s already busy with everyday life. Between applying the settings, track testing and then fine-tuning everything, you can easily spend several hours on it, and that’s just on one car and one track.

Fortunately for us, there are sites with a very active sim-racing community, notably Assetto Corsa. The latter offers complete, ready-to-use setups for various motorsport disciplines, and we’re going to take a look at them now.

Accsetups

The first to be introduced is Accsetup, a community site offering a wide range of setups for Assetto Corsa. The principle is simple: you choose from among the cars and circuits available, and you’ll have access to a hot-lap YouTube video, and lastly, the vehicle setup.

As for the cars, you’ll find some fifty vehicles in several categories: GT2, GT3, GT4, M2 and Cup. The circuits are just as numerous, with Imola, Barcelona and legendary tracks such as the Nordschleife.

The site’s interface is easy to use, and all you have to do is choose the motorsport category, the car and the track on which you’d like to do your laps, and click on the combo to access the hot lap video and vehicle settings. The latter include fuel quantity, traction control intensity, tire pressure, toe-in and camber, and more. It’s all-encompassing, and especially useful for drivers new to sim-racing, and even those with some experience of the game, but not the time to match.

I must point out one thing, however. Since Accsetup is of the collaborative type, you don’t have all the setups for all the track/car combinations. It’s a shame, but it’s an opening to offer your contribution to the community.

Gosetups

GoSetup takes the same approach as Accsetup, but pushes it further in return for a fee from you. The principle is the same: you choose the car and the track, and you get the vehicle settings. These include more or less everything that’s adjustable on the race car, from fuel quantity to spoiler settings. So it’s complete, and particularly extensive for a sim-racing title.

The catch here, and I don’t really know if this is a problem for everyone, is that you either have to pay for each setup depending on the car and circuit, or you take out a monthly subscription to have access to all configurations.

If you choose the one-off purchase route, a setup will cost you around €7. Bear in mind that you’ll have the setups for just one vehicle to choose from, as well as the track. On the other hand, the site offers a monthly subscription option costing around €12 and giving you access to all the setups on the platform, which boasts over 2,500, regular updates and downloads too.

Depending on your investment in Assetto Corsa, I’d recommend one or the other if you really don’t want to go to the trouble of finding the right setups.

Overtake

Overtake tries to do what Accsetup does, but adds a blog to the mix. You’ve got setups for AC vehicles and tracks, but also community events, Discord servers and a host of other activities and articles for sim-racing fans.

Overtake not only touches on Assetto Corsa, but also other sim-racing titles. All you have to do is search it to find what you’re looking for. Obviously, it’s not straight forward like the other two entries on this list, but it has the advantage of being free, and of offering much more than just settings for cars and tracks.

For example, you’ll find settings for Direct Drive bases, LC sim-racing pedalboards and all other sim-racing equipment, should you have trouble configuring your setup. As far as I’m concerned, I think it’s a good start for first-time sim-racers, especially those with no previous knowledge of the discipline.