Sponsored No More Setup Work: Coach Dave Delta Gets You On Track with a Single Click

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Even for experienced sim racers, setup work can sometimes be overwhelming and time-consuming. Fiddling with countless adjustments for hours is a thing of the past with Coach Dave Delta: The tool ensures you are out on track in seconds without having to worry about damper rates or tire pressures in Assetto Corsa Competizione – and now in iRacing, too.

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Being competitive in sim racing does not exclusively boil down to setups, but a quick baseline can help a racer’s confidence immensely. Coach Dave Academy offers setups to combat this already, but downloading and installing the fitting ones with each update to the simulation of your choice can be a hassle.

To get racers out on track faster, Coach Dave Delta takes care of this automatically: The tool recognizes when a session is running and immediately installs a selection of fitting setups so they can load them once they are in the in-game garage. This way, the need to search for new setups every time a sim has been updated or adjusting them for different track temperatures, for example, is completely eliminated.

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Focus on Driving, Not Engineering​

Delta acts like a sim racer’s personal engineering team – all they need to do is get in the car and drive. This also levels the playing field for those who do not know how to setup their cars, as well as those who simply do not want to invest a lot of time into setup work. Simply launch a session and the setups are automatically ready for use.

Coach David Perel himself appreciates this capability immensely: “Using Delta in my league races had made my time racing so much more enjoyable as I don’t have to spend a second thinking about setups. In the case of ACC, the setups are loaded with the tire pressures automatically adjusted”, states the professional GT3 racer. “I don’t know about you, but I never want to deal with managing tire pressures, and Delta solves this.” For iRacing, tire pressure adjustments are not part of Delta, but all the other advantages are included as well.​

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More Than Setups​

The tool’s setup database is continuously updated so drivers always have setups for the most recent versions of ACC and iRacing at their disposal. “Our setups are quick, but still drivable”, says Perel. Racers can configure exactly what is installed to fit their needs, and Delta also comes with telemetry, replay files and hot lap videos to compare their own laps to and improve their driving.

Along with the newly-added iRacing support, a brand-new UI design has launched for Delta. Subscribers of Coach Dave Academy have free access to the tool, so the days of downloading setup packs and manually unpacking them into the correct folder for ACC or iRacing are over – a single click in Delta is enough to go racing without having to worry about setups.

For more details, head to the Coach Dave Delta website where you can also find out what else is planned for the tool in the future, as well as pricing info.

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Yannik Haustein
Lifelong motorsport enthusiast and sim racing aficionado, walking racing history encyclopedia.

Sim racing editor, streamer and one half of the SimRacing Buddies podcast (warning, German!).

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Since when are comments like these supported by a member of the company? I am sending a message to OverTake through the contactform, sir. I suggest you adjust your behavior just slightly if you want have aspirations of being a moderator on a public forum.
Please don't try to intercept that form as well. That would just be abusing your position. I don't take offense on people knowing why I got banned from this thread. I am not so private that I hide when I am in the wrong according to a moderator. I don't consider this a private message nor does it harm my privacy.
Good day.

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Except this isn't a pay to win case. Your car is still the same car as the next guy's in that online session. Setups dont necessarily make your car superior...

By this same logic, you would also have an issue with someone using more expensive hardware at home, like a DD wheel, loadcell pedals... etc
Except there were many videos comparing default setups with these paid ones, and they do give advantages, if not in pure pace, then drivability, etc. Regarding the hardware part, yes, that was what I meant with that "minimize" thought, we just can't control it.

My issue with the current state of simracing is deeper I think, these exceptionally expensive pro setups are just a result of the eSports boom that completely changed the vibe behind simracing for me. And that suddenly everything is for big money in comparison to the core products, the sims. I know we live in capitalism, with everything good and bad that comes with it, but this whole concept is just... I can't even find the words. Incomprehensible for me how anyone would say that's a good deal.

Imagine all the work that went into creating the sim, the programming, the licenses, the art, the physics, the bunch of research. Years of work. Selling for 39.99EUR lifetime access without discounts. I am not saying creating these setups is a weekend's work, but my God, 99EUR annual sub is just insulting. And I am not like crying that I can't afford it, it's the concept that is just so out of touch.

Maicrotransactions and gacha and similar concepts screwed up the perception of value. That's the only explanation I can find.
 
Except there were many videos comparing default setups with these paid ones, and they do give advantages, if not in pure pace, then drivability, etc. Regarding the hardware part, yes, that was what I meant with that "minimize" thought, we just can't control it.

My issue with the current state of simracing is deeper I think, these exceptionally expensive pro setups are just a result of the eSports boom that completely changed the vibe behind simracing for me. And that suddenly everything is for big money in comparison to the core products, the sims. I know we live in capitalism, with everything good and bad that comes with it, but this whole concept is just... I can't even find the words. Incomprehensible for me how anyone would say that's a good deal.

Imagine all the work that went into creating the sim, the programming, the licenses, the art, the physics, the bunch of research. Years of work. Selling for 39.99EUR lifetime access without discounts. I am not saying creating these setups is a weekend's work, but my God, 99EUR annual sub is just insulting. And I am not like crying that I can't afford it, it's the concept that is just so out of touch.

Maicrotransactions and gacha and similar concepts screwed up the perception of value. That's the only explanation I can find.
But none of this is a requirement for you to enjoy your favorite simulator... Nothing stops you from running a basic wheel on a desk, doing your own thing.

You having a have a problem if I decide to run my simulator with $20k worth of high end hardware, subscribe to 10 different coaching services, buy setups and the works... its all on you having issues with people spending their money - not the game
 
Seems you need to consider a review of your own beliefs of what is right and wrong in general...
Look, I can make a review of my own beliefs but you don't even understand when I say that SOME companies might undertake steps against selling mods/gamefiles by third parties LIKE modders/setup-sellers. Kunos might take a relaxed stance towards setupsellers/modders/etc. but not all studio's are that lenient, regardless of game genre.
Whatever I think about it is not relevant in this matter. I have bought setups in the past for iRacing/ACC because without, frankly, laptimes are gonna be crap. I love how the simracing community always hammers on how to improve your own driving but whenever a random guy asks how to improve his car setup, explanations turn towards general statements like "try a click here, try a click there".
If you are driving around on a base setup, in whatever title, all be it: ACC, iRacing, RF2 et cetera you will be learning in a simulated boat instead of a simulated car (in regards to game physics).
Every title has its meta and this meta is always kept secret by competitive circles until the next physics update/car update/whatever update comes around.
I am no alien in any racing title, but I know the difference between the carsetup being hogwash or me. But this is another discussion of itself.
 
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But none of this is a requirement for you to enjoy your favorite simulator... Nothing stops you from running a basic wheel on a desk, doing your own thing.

You having a have a problem if I decide to run my simulator with $20k worth of high end hardware, subscribe to 10 different coaching services, buy setups and the works... its all on you having issues with people spending their money - not the game
I have zero problem, you do you. I am just saying, which was my first sentence in this thread, that it turns me off of going online.
 
you don't even understand when I say that SOME companies might undertake steps against selling mods/gamefiles by third parties LIKE modders/setup-sellers. Kunos might take a relaxed stance towards setupsellers/modders/etc. but not all studio's are that lenient, regardless of game genre.
I understand what you are saying just fine, but again... whatever you assume a company might legally do isnt enough to label something as unethical or piracy. And thats where your argument just starts crumbling.

Secondly, huge difference between a mod (game alteration) and setup (user generated value storage file)
 
I miss the days where people shared and discussed their setups for FREE on several forums. Unfortunately its 2023: Subscription 100€/Year for 1 sim, today it is 1 april?
Sorry not for me.
I agree. That 99 Euro price tag is not for me. However, and I have no skin in this, the monthly 9.99 Euro fee wouldn't sound too bad if it wasn't for this from the terms of service: "In order to avoid subscribers paying $9.99, downloading the entire library, and then instantly cancelling their subscription (we call this hit and run), we have a download limit." The DL limit for one month is 30. Funny, the terms somehow fail to mention HOW to cancel your subscription.
 
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I think we should come back to the core question:

if you don´t like paid setups or people getting better at their hobby by (paid) tuition try the RD Racing Club, especially for the "obsolete" Sims like Asseto Corsa, because there are no setup shops and coaches for the original AC.

But be carefull, the community expects friendly and respectfull behaviour :O_o:
 
But none of this is a requirement for you to enjoy your favorite simulator... Nothing stops you from running a basic wheel on a desk, doing your own thing.

You having a have a problem if I decide to run my simulator with $20k worth of high end hardware, subscribe to 10 different coaching services, buy setups and the works... its all on you having issues with people spending their money - not the game
I do think his issue isn't about people spending their money but about how people valorizes products and the work behind them. In fact people don't, this is just a matket value which is the result of people's needs.

The question he raised is : have setups more value than a full simracing title? Each one of us has his own answer but it is a good reflection. I don't see who would "crucially" need to pay for setups though, apart someone "professionnally" involved in esport who probably is a setup expert or has a supporting staff to work on his setups, or someone just wanting to be competitive in a league (and without friendly contacts in this same league). But if someone wants to pay and that there is a market for that, why not?

What I don't like is the business model. Selling setups which will become obsolete for the former customers, after a game's update, is questionnable imo. This is just a vicous circle for the customers. At least they know they are entering the circle when they pay for the first time... It doesn't seem illegal because officially it is a service, not a product, but this would deserved to be checked, because at the end this is just selling setups, not a service.

About the sim racing titles value, the price, I do think it is currently too low. The sim racing software market is just in a bad state with products not responding the needs of the customers, offering more or less the same things, with more or less unacceptable flaws. Simracers will be willing to pay more for sim titles if they meet their expectations. And if developpers could provide good setups and sharing tools, this kind of questionnable product would not exist...
 

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