If you are a regular customer of Coach Dave Academy and a player of Le Mans Ultimate you’ll have seen our default setups are implemented into the game. These default setups are an improvement on the base game defaults with a one size fit all approach so you can safely complete qualifying and the race, but they were also meant as a taster for you all until we began to roll out something far greater. Our professional Le Mans Ultimate setups.
Today we begin this process with a complete content drop for the Ferrari 488 GTE EVO at every single track currently in the sim and 5 circuits for the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R. These new setups will help you transform your racing experience on the platform and give you far greater scope for victory in all aspects of your racing. In some cases they are almost 3 seconds faster!
The Coach Dave Academy Treatment
We will be giving Le Mans Ultimate the full Coach Dave Academy treatment just like we have with titles before, namely ACC and iRacing. This means whenever we create a professional setup for a car you will receive three different setups with a plethora of data to accompany:
- A qualifying setup – minimum fuel loads, maximum attack, ultimate one lap pace
- A race fast setup – our fastest race setups that will put you on the limit of the car for pure pace
- A race safe setup – a stable setup for the race that compromises a little on pace
- A hot lap video using the qualifying setup to show you how fast it can be
- A reference lap to study on Delta to show you how to be just as fast with the setup
Handy Information For You To Know
Before we jump into how fast these new setups really are, there is some information that is of vital importance that you need to know about. It’s regarding how these setups have been created and it’s what will make all the difference for you when using them in online competitions.
As you know, we have a fantastic relationship with LMU, hence our default setups already being in the game, and because of this we have worked closely with the LMU dev team to understand how they create races for their online daily racing and online competitions.
From this we have been able to determine Le Man Ultimates official online session settings used to build our setups efficiently and properly, to benefit you in every session you enter. This means track surface presets, air temps, track temps, time of day and weather data have all been collected and used so the setup you get is the best for your online racing.
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO Hotlap Table
So without further ado, here is the Ferrari hotlap table with a qualifying and race lap time at every circuit in the sim. Pay close attention to COTA. For reference, our reference lap data you will find on Delta using the default LMU CDA setup did a 2:05.283. In comparison to that, our professional qualifying setup is 2.7 seconds faster with a 2:02.640, while the race fast setup can do a 2:03.736 which is 1.5 seconds faster.
| Car: | Track: | Setup: | Time: |
| Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Sebring | Fastest Race | 1:58.300 1:59.316 |
| Algarve | Fastest Race | 1:41.724 1:42.862 | |
| Spa Francorchamps | Fastest Race | 2:15.245 2:16.283 | |
| Le Mans | Fastest Race | 3:50.486 3:53.026 | |
| Monza | Fastest Race | 1:46.220 1:47.246 | |
| Fuji | Fastest Race | 1:36.970 1:38.014 | |
| Bahrain | Fastest Race | 1:56.674 1:57.812 | |
| Imola | Fastest Race | 1:40.299 1:41.535 | |
| COTA | Fastest Race | 2:02.640 2:03.736 |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO YT Hotlaps
All of the Ferrari 488 GTE EVO laps are done by Jakob Ostermann. You all know how fast this man is behind the wheel.
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Setups
It’s not quite the complete set yet, so we won’t release a complete hot lap table, but we will tease you with the first 5 tracks that are also ready alongside the Ferrari 488 GTE EVO. They are:
- Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps – 2:14.831
- Autodromo Nazionale di Monza – 1:46.386
- Fuji Speedway – 1:36.834
- Bahrain International Circuit – 1:56.681
- Circuit of the Americas – 2:02.705
You can also get these setups from within Delta right now and whilst there are no YouTube videos to accompany them, you get the reference lap data on Delta to show you how you can extract the most from the Corvette also.
More Hypercar Reference Laps
Finally, we do also have more Hypercar reference lap data added to Delta thanks to our team. For this week you can find more COTA data for 9 more Hypercars, to join the Alpine we released last week. Remember all of these reference laps are created using our default setups you can use right now from within the game for free.
| Car: | Time: |
| Cadillac V-Series.R | 1:52.970 |
| Ferrari 499P | 1:52.601 |
| Glickenhaus SCG 007 LMH | 1:53.545 |
| Peugeot 9X80 | 1:52.917 |
| Peugeot 9X8 (with wing) | 1:53.256 |
| Porsche 963 | 1:52.402 |
| Vanwall Vandervell 680 | 1:55.071 |
| Toyota GR010 Hybrid | 1:51.994 |
| Lamborghini SC63 | 1:52.521 |
Le Mans Ultimate Naming Convention
| Cars | ||
| Car | Abbreviation | |
| Hypercar | Cadillac V-Series.R | CSVR |
| Ferrari 499P | 499P | |
| Glickenhaus SCG 007 LMH | SCG007 | |
| Peugeot 9X80 | 9X8 | |
| Porsche 963 | P963 | |
| Vanwall Vandervell 680 | VAN680 | |
| Toyota GR010 Hybrid | GR010 | |
| Peugeot 9X8 (with wing) | 9X8W | |
| Lamborghini SC63 | SC63 | |
| Alpine A424 | A424 | |
| Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 | IFTIPO6 | |
| LMP2 | Oreca 07 | LMP2 |
| LMGTE | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | AMR |
| Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | C8R | |
| Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | 488GTE | |
| Porsche 911 RSR-19 | RSR | |
| Tracks | |
| Track | Abbreviation |
| Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, Florida, USA | SBR |
| Algarve International Circuit, Portimão, Portugal | ALG |
| Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium | SPA |
| Circuit de La Sarthe, Le Mans, France | LM24 |
| Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy | MON |
| Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Shizouka, Japan | FUJI |
| Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain | BIC |
| Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari | IMO |
| Circuit of the Americas | COTA |
Setup Name Examples:
| CDA CSVR FUJI Q01 – Qualifying setup |
| CDA CSVR FUJI R01 – Race setup |
| CDA CSVR FUJI S01 – Safe setup |
