For the beginner – Setup Developer Tool walks you through a step by step process of creating and customizing your very own personalized baseline race setup. It does so by asking simple questions about the car type, track type, and behavior of the car on track. Choosing from a menu of possible responses to the questions, the user describes the car and SDT offers valid setup changes for each step in the process, ultimately resulting in a user-created baseline setup personalized to your own needs.
This app is now free. Here’s why.
This app has been superseded by onRails, a completely rebuilt platform that combines VRCE and the Setup Developer Tool into a single, more powerful app. Rather than simply retiring my older apps, I’ve made it free so you can try the core concept for yourself. If the approach to setup tuning clicks with you — if you find yourself thinking “I wish this did more” — that’s exactly what onRails was built for.
onRails takes everything this app does and expands it significantly: a dedicated beginner module that builds a baseline setup from scratch, a more advanced lap-by-lap tuning assistant, support for data importation from numerus simulators, and more.
Product features
- Easy to use tablet style interface
- Lap logging and reporting
- Uses driver feedback to create setup to your personal needs
- Works with all modern sim-racing games, and real world cars
- Supports open wheel, sports cars, touring cars, and stock cars
- Both road course and oval style race tracks supported
- English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and German languages
The Setup Developer Tool is the product of more than two decades of research in auto racing and race car mechanics. The information offered therein is relevant not only to all racing games, but real world applications as well. It can be used with any realistic auto racing software that allows the users to adjust the car setup. Use with Assetto Corsa, Automobilista, F1 2017, iRacing, Project Cars, RaceRoom, rFactor, rFactor 2, Stock Car Extreme, and more.
SDT also available on Steam | Google Play
Actual user quotes
“I tried three cars, in two different sims, and in all three cars I did improve my lap times… all in all, I think Setup Developer 2018 works really well.” – Billy Strange Racing
This app does exactly what the title suggests, it help you to, step by step, create your own personalized car setups in your favorite sim! Expert or novice, SDT is bound to prove useful to you. – Sherwin vd Sloot
“Really helpful on the setup process” – Marco Gouveia
I was trying to set up for the short track in Iowa… I had spent a day and half stuck on 24.099 and kept reading and rereading the printed material I had found on the internet but to no avail. I downloaded Setup Developer Tool 2018 and kept inputting information and following the steps and these are my times as of 7 hours later; 23.781, 23.395, 23.416, 23.398, 23.305, 23.097 and my last time was 22.892. After my last tire adjustment I said to myself no way, that can’t be right and sure enough I ran that last lap-time… best investment I ever made – Mark Mayrose
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