When you move from the fixed to the open series in iRacing, you’ll be able to start customizing your car settings. This is a fantastic feature of the game, since it allows you to configure your car to your driving style, potentially giving you a big competitive advantage.
That being said, a lot of people are overwhelmed by the idea of creating their own setups from scratch, which is completely fair. It takes a lot of time and knowledge to comb through all the settings iRacing allows you to configure, and your setup needs to be unique for each car and track.
For this reason, a lot of people opt to download setups that have been pre-configured by other drivers. We’ve created this article to help you find the best sources for both free and paid iRacing setups.
Here’s a quick list of all the sources we cover in this article:
- iRacing Baseline Setups (free)
- iRacing Setup Sync by Nick Thissen (free)
- iRacing Member Forum (free)
- iRacing Content Creators on YouTube (free)
- Other drivers on iRacing (free)
- Setups4i.Racing by Tanner McCollough (free)
- Virtual Racing School (mix of free and paid)
- Craig’s Setup Shop (paid)
Once you’ve found a download you want to use, check out our step-by-step guide on how to install setups for iRacing.
Free iRacing Setups
iRacing Baseline Setups
iRacing Baseline Setup
If you launch a test drive within the iRacing simulator, often you can find free setups within the “iRacing Setups” tab. These “baseline” setups created by iRacing so you can quickly and easily jump into a car and get driving. You can test these out, tweak them, and re-save your own versions.
iRacing Setup Sync by Nick Thissen
Our favourite source of free setups is iRacing Setup Sync by Nick Thissen. This is a great resource because it’s free, and the setups are created by the iRacing community, so you can find setups that are easy to drive.
iRacing Setup Sync Website Homepage
It might not be as up-to-date and consistent as some of the paid sources of iRacing setups, but we’ve been able to find lots of great setups on it (especially for the more popular series). You can find a massive list of free setups to download on the “Setups” page.
iRacing SetupSync Free Downloads
Nick also created a great app for downloading setups directly into iRacing, which you can download and sign up for here. Once you’re in, just choose the cars and tracks you want setups for. You’ll then be able to access a whole range of setups from your Garage in iRacing without having to download each setup individually. The app logs what setups you’ve used as well as your lap times, so you can keep track of which work best for you.
iRacing Community
The iRacing community is full of passionate drivers who are often willing to share their setups for free. You just need to know where to look.
iRacing Member Forum: You can often find free setups within the iRacing forum, although they aren’t always easy to find and they can be unpredictable.
iRacing Member Forum Homepage
iRacing Forum Setup Download Example
iRacing YouTube Creators: If you search for iRacing track tutorials on YouTube, often various channels will post their setups in the video description. For example, the AMDC Racing Academy channel has lots of videos with links for setup downloads in the video descriptions.
Other Drivers: The iRacing community is full of passionate drivers, who are often willing to share their setups. Don’t be afraid to send someone a private message after a race to see whether they could share their setup with you.
Virtual Racing School (VRS)
Virtual Racing School has a lot of high-quality content available through their free subscription for casual drivers. If you want full access to all of their content and features you will need to sign up for a paid subscription. They have a few different packages available currently ranging from $5/month ($50/year) or $10/month ($100/year) for varying degrees of access to a range of features.
If you’re only interested in their free VRS setups, you can find them inside their datapacks (which include setups, telemetry and replays from pro drivers).
VRS Datapacks Example
Free VRS iRacing Setup Example
Setups4i.Racing by Tanner McCollough
Setups4i.Racing is another free option, which was created by Tanner McCollough. You can join his Setups4i.Racing discord if you want to discuss the setups with others (it’s a very active discord). Setups4i.Racing offers a wide range of setups that all live within a massive Google Drive.
Setups4iRacing Google Drive
Paid iRacing Setups
Craig’s Setup Shop
A very popular option on the paid side is Craig’s Setup Shop by Craig A Williams, an accomplished sim racer and setup engineer forG2 eSports. It’s a great choice if you’re looking for an affordable subscription for simple one-stop downloads of consistent, high quality setups.
Currently the pricing is $5/month, $15 quarterly, or, $50/year (subject to change). Alternatively, if you subscribe to Craig on Twitch you can get access to the setups for free (if you have Amazon Prime you can get a Twitch subscription for free).
Craig’s Setup Shop Website Homepage
One thing to keep in mind when downloading iRacing setups is that one person’s driving style will not necessarily suit another person. For example, if you pick a setup from an elite driver, it’s very possible that it will be a specialized setup that’s harder for you to drive as a beginner. For this reason, it’s important to try out different setups and tweak them within iRacing to make them work for you.
Once you’ve found a download you want to use, check out our step-by-step guide on how to install setups for iRacing.
If you know of a good source of iRacing setups that we missed, let us know in the comments below!
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