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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So, if i understand it right Daddy Dave gives you the fish so you perpetually go to him for food?

umm...I think this relationship it generates a bit more dependence that i would love.

BTW thanks you have motivated me to learn how the heck create set ups on my own, to be an independent racer! You are very inspiring Daddy Dave!
 
As a race engineer myself, this is probably the worst thing you can get. Let alone the absurd pricing, but if you, as a driver, don't understand what the car is doing, then this thing won't help you a single bit. While the initial idea might be a good one, it won't make you a better racer. As other people already commented, if your driving sucks, a different setup won't make it suck less. Also keep in mind, that setups are always personal. An AI may push you in the right direction, but the perfect setup you can only find by yourself. And while I understand that us simracers may not be the target group, it's still a step in the wrong direction.
 
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So, as you are a professional, how about giving back to the community and teaching a webinar on Motec and suspension? :inlove:

I got the "low hanging fruit" covered but would love to learn how to fine tune dampers and camber/toe with data.

About "learn to drive", any advice how to do that on my own?
If paying a coach to analyse your driving and help you to improve is embarrassing, what should I do?
 
Coach Dave is a business that is no different than any of the other sport coaching clinics... You pay to try and get better at football, volleyball, golf... why not sim racing? Everything in the sim community is expected to be provide free of charge... lol

You can still share setups amongst yourselves, like you could also try and learn to play better golf on your own... :)
Which is weird if you think about it because pretending to own and make profit off of gamefiles is considered piracy.
So here we are where we are censored and monitored more times than not, but if I would tell you go just download a game for free from Skidrow it's considered to be a bad thing, but for Race department it's ok to have sponsored messages on that promote piracy in the form of selling gamefiles. (Yes, carsetup files are gamefiles.)
:D
 
Which is weird if you think about it because pretending to own and make profit off of gamefiles is considered piracy.
So here we are where we are censored and monitored more times than not, but if I would tell you go just download a game for free from Skidrow it's considered to be a bad thing, but for Race department it's ok to have sponsored messages on that promote piracy in the form of selling gamefiles. (Yes, carsetup files are gamefiles.)
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You are really reaching here... Car setup files are most often storage text files with car parameters for the game to use. What difference does it make if its in a game format or a text file with them written down for the user to input themselves?
 
Which is weird if you think about it because pretending to own and make profit off of gamefiles is considered piracy.
So here we are where we are censored and monitored more times than not, but if I would tell you go just download a game for free from Skidrow it's considered to be a bad thing, but for Race department it's ok to have sponsored messages on that promote piracy in the form of selling gamefiles. (Yes, carsetup files are gamefiles.)
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While you are technically correct about setup files being actual part of the game. I think you would be hard pressed to find ANY company that would prohibit sharing of files. Heck some programs facilitate the process! User generated setup files are essentially the same as a form where a person has to fill in information. It is the information(generated by the user, or A USER) that is the meat of the file, not the framework that allows the racing sim program to make sense of the data.
 
While you are technically correct about setup files being actual part of the game. I think you would be hard pressed to find ANY company that would prohibit sharing of files. Heck some programs facilitate the process! User generated setup files are essentially the same as a form where a person has to fill in information. It is the information(generated by the user, or A USER) that is the meat of the file, not the framework that allows the racing sim program to make sense of the data.
You may share files, sharing or having gamefiles on your computer aren't the issue.
The legal issue where companies file it as piracy is when you take files produced by a game that developers made and then sell those to others. I don't even know if the intent of the bylaw is that the consumer is protected against sharks (like setup sellers) or that the company that has made the game is losing out on profits or reputation or whatever. (I wouldn't know how that would hold up in a case of law or how that would even be explained)
 
You may share files, sharing or having gamefiles on your computer aren't the issue.
The legal issue where companies file it as piracy is when you take files produced by a game that developers made and then sell those to others. I don't even know if the intent of the bylaw is that the consumer is protected against sharks (like setup sellers) or that the company that has made the game is losing out on profits or reputation or whatever. (I wouldn't know how that would hold up in a case of law or how that would even be explained)
How can you call it a legal issue while not even being able to explain your argument… again, big reach by calling it piracy.
 
How can you call it a legal issue while not even being able to explain your argument… again, big reach by calling it piracy.
Because if you would be selling your setups by Patreon and the gamedeveloper gets wind of it and the ones in legal have a prickly day. They can suppena Patreon and make remove Patreon the page where you sell it. And Patreon isn't even going in discussion with the guy selling it. I can explain my argument and I did. I just can't explain on what technicality the legal departments will pin it.
 
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Because if you would be selling your setups by Patreon and the gamedeveloper gets wind of it and the ones in legal have a prickly day. They can suppena Patreon and make remove Patreon the page where you sell it. And Patreon isn't even going in discussion with the guy selling it. I can explain my argument and I did. I just can't explain on what technicality the legal departments will pin it.
In this instance, you would have to see an Action filed by Kunos/505 Games. Since ACC benefits from driver coaches instructing sim drivers AND sharing/selling setups as a means to attract new users and maintain other users. A company must show an injury(financial loss) to have any hope of recouping damages. Since Kunos is fully AWARE of the Driver Accademy, it's coaches, and it's products, there is absolutely zero chance any lawsuit would be filed or, even further, would be successful in recovering money. They best(or worst result for the Setup Coach) would be a 'Cease & Desist' letter. AGAIN...not likely since it is part of Kunos' business model to attract new sim users via these driver academies.
 
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You may share files, sharing or having gamefiles on your computer aren't the issue.
The legal issue where companies file it as piracy is when you take files produced by a game that developers made and then sell those to others. I don't even know if the intent of the bylaw is that the consumer is protected against sharks (like setup sellers) or that the company that has made the game is losing out on profits or reputation or whatever. (I wouldn't know how that would hold up in a case of law or how that would even be explained)
When was the last time microsoft sued a company that shared data inside the container that is a ms word file? I don't think we have to go in to stratosphere silly on this one. Implying piracy is absurd.
 
When was the last time microsoft sued a company that shared data inside the container that is a ms word file? I don't think we have to go in to stratosphere silly on this one. Implying piracy is absurd.
I don't know anything about Microsoft specifically. I do know of a story about Frontier pushing to shut a modder down on Patreon. In what degree he was legally harassed personally, I don't know.

And it's not like I'm in full conspiracy-mode. Just google it: Google Search
So even if some studio's don't choose to view external modders/setup-sellers as pirates. they potentially could. That was basically what I was saying in my second post but you chose not to read it properly.
 
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I don't know anything about Microsoft specifically. I do know of a story about Frontier pushing to shut a modder down on Patreon. In what degree he was legally harassed personally, I don't know.

And it's not like I'm in full conspiracy-mode. Just google it: Google Search
So even if some studio's don't choose to view external modders/setup-sellers as pirates. they potentially could. That was basically what I was saying in my second post but you chose not to read it properly.
Modding and setup selling are 2 wildly different things, whether we are reading it properly or not.

Maybe best you just concede that the fact is this has nothing to do with piracy
 
Modding and setup selling are 2 wildly different things, whether we are reading it properly or not.

Maybe best you just concede that the fact is this has nothing to do with piracy
Nope, you still are selling and redistrubiting gamefiles owned by a company. The actual definition of piracy. No need to be stubborn about it. :giggle:
 
Nope, you still are selling and redistrubiting gamefiles owned by a company. The actual definition of piracy. No need to be stubborn about it. :giggle:
I’m not the stubborn one trying to prove a point against 3 people, but you do you

EDIT: we are up to 6 now!
 
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Nope, you still are selling and redistrubiting gamefiles owned by a company. The actual definition of piracy. No need to be stubborn about it. :giggle:
It is not the actual definition of piracy. Not even sharing save files is illegal. At its core user generated content.
Furthermore, in ordered to be considered piracy, the company that supposedly is having a problem needs to argue it's point. Kunos won't nor ever will, as it's business model has users sharing actively content based on their games, either that be through mods as we can see on this space, and Kunos has done nothing about it, or ACC setup files/ programs also shared around this space.
Kunos also is on a first-name basis with plenty of ACC pro drivers that are part of the official ACC/SRO championships, some of them give physics feedbacks and some of them have their own setup shops.
Kunos actively benefits from users sharing or selling setups or any other ACC content as it creates more interest in the platform.

Good luck arguing for piracy when the company is in favor of this.
 
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Nope, you still are selling and redistrubiting gamefiles owned by a company.
So Kunos owns the setups I create in ACC? Is that in the EULA? Please point me to where it says that.
 
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Piracy or not piracy (I don't think it is), "pay to win (or gain advantage)" stuff like this greatly reduces my motivation to join an online session.

If somebody has the knowledge and time to tweak their setup, so be it, I respect that. But buying setups to get the upper hand quickly... nah.

Let me put it this way, IRL racing is full of "unfair" aspects in the sense of having more money means more testing, better sim, better engineers, etc. I was under the impression that simracing should not be about that, or at least it should try to minimize it as much as possible.
 
Piracy or not piracy (I don't think it is), "pay to win (or gain advantage)" stuff like this greatly reduces my motivation to join an online session.

If somebody has the knowledge and time to tweak their setup, so be it, I respect that. But buying setups to get the upper hand quickly... nah.

Let me put it this way, IRL racing is full of "unfair" aspects in the sense of having more money means more testing, better sim, better engineers, etc. I was under the impression that simracing should not be about that, or at least it should try to minimize it as much as possible.
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
 
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Another point to make about the "difficulties" between Coach Dave and Kunos is that I´ve seen Coach Dave banner ads (not overlays!!) on a DaveCam stream.
So if Kunos puts DC ads in their skins, wtf is your problem @Tycor?

Again, it´s a free internet, it´s perfectly fine to suck on your own OR get help. I mean, even Alonso changes his own tires, right;)
 

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