Corner Lab

Your car, the corner, and what it's doing there — the setup changes worth trying, in order.

The main event

Setup finder

Ranked for that exact combination. Anything your car's garage won't let you change is greyed out, not quietly dropped. 18 cars, 25 layouts, 172 corners, 10 symptoms.

Car
Circuit
Corner• decides the lap
What's it doing?
Get the ranked answer
What comes back
A ranked starting sequenceNot a verdict
In order — most likely first, with the step size and what it costs you elsewhere.
Why that order — one line: the car's engine position and downforce, and what the corner demands.
What you can't change — struck through with the reason, rather than offered and wasting your time.
Free advice first — technique is ranked alongside setup, because sometimes the answer costs nothing.

The picker needs JavaScript. Without it, the lists below are the way in — every car, circuit and symptom is a page of its own.

The field

Cars

GTP

Acura ARX-06

GTP · mid-engine

LMDh on the ORECA chassis. Spec hybrid and gearbox as per the class.

GT3

Acura NSX GT3 EVO 22

GT3 · mid-engine

Sharp turn-in and strong brakes, but genuinely setup-sensitive — it rewards a dialled car and punishes a rough one more than most of the field.

GT3

Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO

GT3 · front-engine

Stable, planted and forgiving, and it takes kerbs harder than most. A touch of understeer comes with the front-engine layout; floaty on turn-in unless you trail brake.

GT3

Audi R8 LMS EVO II GT3

GT3 · mid-engine

Exceptional over kerbs and very stable when it's in its window — but that window is narrow, and outside it the car goes away quickly.

GTP

BMW M Hybrid V8

GTP · mid-engine

LMDh on the Dallara chassis. Same spec hybrid and gearbox as the Cadillac and 963.

Spec / fixed setup

BMW M2 Racing (G87)

Spec / fixed setup · front-engine

Heavier and far more powerful than the other rookie car, and it drives like it. Front-engined and rear-driven with real torque, so it will step the rear on exit in a way the MX-5 never does, and it carries more speed into a corner than a beginner expects to have to lose.

GT3

BMW M4 GT3 EVO

GT3 · front-engine

Widely reckoned the most forgiving GT3 in the game. Stable, excellent over kerbs, and it tells you clearly what it's doing.

GTP

Cadillac V-Series.R

GTP · mid-engine

LMDh on the spec Dallara chassis. Glued above about 160 km/h, heavy and reluctant to rotate below it.

GT3

Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R

GT3 · mid-engine

Heavy-feeling and strong in a straight line. Linear naturally aspirated power makes throttle work honest and predictable.

GT3

Ferrari 296 GT3

GT3 · mid-engine

Balanced and forgiving, one of the easier cars to be immediately quick in, and notably good in the wet.

GTP

Ferrari 499P

GTP · mid-engine

The odd one out: an LMH, not an LMDh — Ferrari's own chassis with a front-axle hybrid rather than the spec rear-axle system the others share.

GT3

Ford Mustang GT3

GT3 · front-engine

Front-running pace with exceptional tyre life — the endurance pick. Naturally aspirated, so power arrives predictably.

GT3

Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO

GT3 · mid-engine

Outstanding mid-corner balance and rewarding to drive on the limit. Linear NA power.

Spec / fixed setup

Mazda MX-5 Cup

Spec / fixed setup · front-engine

Light, slow and completely honest. There is no downforce, no aero platform and nothing in the garage to change, so the car tells you exactly what you did. Momentum is the whole game: every tenth lost on entry is a tenth you never get back.

GT3

McLaren 720S GT3 EVO

GT3 · mid-engine

The highest-downforce GT3 with excellent aero consistency — it rewards fast, flowing tracks more than the rest of the class.

GT3

Mercedes-AMG GT3

GT3 · front-engine

Takes kerbs like nothing else in the class. Naturally aspirated V8, front-engined, and generally an easy car to lean on.

GT3

Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)

GT3 · rear-engine

The only rear-engined car in the class and it behaves like it: huge traction on exit, a nervous rear on entry, and a high skill ceiling.

GTP

Porsche 963

GTP · mid-engine

LMDh on the Multimatic chassis. Shares the spec gearbox and hybrid with the rest of the LMDh field, so it behaves far more like its rivals than a GT3 does.

The calendar

Circuits

Road and street courses only. Each lap guide lists every corner and what it asks of the car.

What's it doing?

Symptoms