Pick your car and the track. You get a realistic target time, the pro benchmark and a free, genuinely drivable setup — as a hotlap video that runs exactly that setup.
The track guide connects three things beginners otherwise have to hunt down separately: a realistic target time for your car on your track, the pro benchmark to compare against, and a free, driveable setup. The setup comes as a hotlap video in which exactly this setup is being driven — the download is in the creator's video description.
Because ACC's GT3 field sits close together thanks to BoP (usually 0.3–0.8 s), one reference time per track is meaningful. A realistic beginner target is typically a few seconds above the pro time — hit it and you are well placed in public lobbies. We do not host setups ourselves; we link to or embed free creator sources.
There are very good free setups from creators such as Fri3d0lf (YouTube, a hotlap video with the setup download in the description, one playlist per car) and Arnout Hoekstra (free, stable race setups as a Steam guide). This guide links to or embeds them for each car-and-track combination.
As a rough orientation: a realistic beginner target is about 2–4 seconds above a track's pro benchmark time. At Monza that is roughly 1:49–1:50, for example (pro around 1:46). Hit that cleanly and you are competitive in public races.
We link to free setups from reputable creators on the current patch (v1.10). You download the setup file directly from the source (video description or Steam) — we host nothing ourselves. The embedded videos only load when you click them, which keeps data use low.