As this is somewhat a endurance race considering the norm. Tyre where is crucial in my opinion. And one of the main objective is to preserve your tyres as long as possible.
Mechanical grip is a priority over wing and splitter.
So keeping toe to the minimum and camber at the appropriate angles to maximise the tyre surface.
Some may know this already some may not but preload, power and traction control are related to each other and require a lot of fine tuning. You don't want too much traction control as it will slow you down and you don't want to little to create wheelspin too much will spin will destroy your tyres. So you need a happy medium. I'm what you call a heavy foot driver. So something like 55% trash control 30% power and 14 clicks preload. With a 37% coast. Works pretty well for me but there's always room for improvement. And this may vary greatly on the compound of tyre. This example being softs.
Mediums you will maybe have to raise the traction control by 5% making 60% ish. Raising your power to about 43% and lowering your preload to something between 7 and 10.
Brakes are harsh. What I mean is they lock-up at the front very easily. This can be helped by probably having more wing than you want at the front and a good bump and rebound. A good test to your bump and rebound is the first long straight just as you go into the left there's a bump that could lock up your wheels enough to send you wide into that corner. Having a good bump and rebound set at its best into this corner will benefit you for the rest of the track as well.
Concentrating on the mechanical grip whilst keeping the wing as low as possible which isn't easy with so much power and breaking ability. Try lowering the front splitter to about 11 and the rear wing about 14. And start working on your mechanical grip. For instance try adding more splitter if you're having a front-end problems to see if it help remedy the problem this will help you in the direction where work needs to be done. Do what you can to remedy the problem whilst keeping the splitter as low as possible this also goes for the rear wing.
Then you know you need a bit more work done at the front of the car take the wing off and make the alterations to gain that grip.
Brake pressure is lower than you think somewhere between 83 and 88 should be good with about 52 bias to the front. Not the best of scenarios but the track is bumpy in breaking zones. Be sure to test alternative entries into corners under braking. Don't want to be in a overtaking situation only to lock up and slide into the car that you're attempting to overtake. Knowing what the track surface is like in these areas in advance will boost the confidence in minimising the risk of incident. Always worth the time in practice.
Here is a basic setup that I hope will get some of you started on the road of making it your own.
Good luck and more importantly have fun.
