F1Laps vs SimRacingSetup - What's the difference?
Pick SimRacingSetup if you want setups made by esports engineers, with race, qualifying and wet versions and a race strategy, or if you also race ACC, iRacing or Le Mans Ultimate. Pick F1Laps if you want free setups ranked by the laps driven with them, and every lap you drive saved, from F1 2020 to F1 26.
We make F1Laps, so read this with that in mind. Every SimRacingSetup fact below comes from its own website, checked on 8 November 2026. The site blocks automated visits, so some pages were read through the Wayback Machine (snapshots from October and November 2026).
Quick Comparison
| F1Laps | SimRacingSetup | |
|---|---|---|
| Free setups | Community setups for every track, dry and wet | Recommended and community setups, dry and wet, for every track |
| Paid setups | None | F1 26 Pro Setups, £59.99 one-off |
| Who makes the setups | Players who drive them | Esports engineers (Pro), the site's own team (recommended), players (community) |
| Lap time next to a setup | The fastest valid lap on F1Laps with that setup | Entered by the person who uploads it |
| What the fastest setups agree on | Free meta setup per track, from the 100 fastest | No |
| Telemetry | Champion: €7.99/month or €79.99/year | Telemetry and Overlay Pass: £4.99/month |
| Telemetry games | F1 2020 to F1 26 | F1 25 and F1 26 |
| Career tracking | Yes, on the free plan | Yes |
| Live overlays | No | Yes |
| Other games | None | Setups for ACC, iRacing, Le Mans Ultimate and AMS2 |
| Apps | Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android | Telemetry in the browser; a Windows installer for ACC, iRacing and LMU setups |
What It Costs
SimRacingSetup's free setups cost nothing. The F1 26 Pro Setups cost £59.99 once. The Pro Setup Membership costs £99.99 a year and includes the F1 Pro setups. The £9.99 monthly membership leaves them out. Telemetry is free to try, then £4.99 a month. Its terms say it can't offer refunds.
On F1Laps, every setup and the meta setup are free. Lap tracking and career seasons are free too. Telemetry is part of Champion at €7.99 a month or €79.99 a year, and new accounts get a 7-day Champion trial, no credit card needed. It starts when your first laps import. More on our plans.
How the Setups Are Ranked
On F1Laps, every setup on a track's list has a valid lap driven with it, and the list is sorted by that lap. One setup per player. Laps that are faster than the track's plausible limit don't make the list.
SimRacingSetup lets you sort community setups by lap time or star rating. The lap time is set by the person who uploads the setup, and the site doesn't say that it checks it. Its Pro setups come from esports engineers, among them István Puki, an F1 Esports Constructors' Champion.
Where SimRacingSetup Is the Better Pick
- You want a pro setup and a race plan. The Pro pack has esports, safe, qualifying, race and wet versions for every track, plus strategies and ERS maps.
- You race more than F1. It has setups for ACC, iRacing, Le Mans Ultimate and AMS2, and a Windows app installs the first three for you. F1 setups you type in by hand, on both sites.
- You want live overlays. They come with its telemetry pass.
- You want cheaper telemetry for the current game. £4.99 a month against €7.99 for Champion.
Players are split on the Pro setups. Career and My Team players like them: "This setup is a beast for car performance" (r/F1Game, June 2025). League and time trial players often call them slow: "good for lower level players but not that good for performance" (r/F1Game, December 2022).
Where F1Laps Is the Better Pick
- You want to see which setups are actually fast. Every lap time on our list is a valid lap driven with that setup, and implausibly fast laps are filtered out.
- You want the consensus, free. Each track's meta setup shows the range the 100 fastest setups agree on, setting by setting. Find it on the track's setups page.
- You play an older game. F1Laps covers F1 2020 to F1 26. SimRacingSetup's telemetry covers F1 25 and F1 26.
- You want every lap saved without paying. The free plan keeps every lap in every mode, and your career seasons.
- You're on Linux, or want a phone app. The F1Laps telemetry app runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
Using Both
Plenty of players take a setup from one site and drive it with the other. Copy a SimRacingSetup setup into the game, keep the F1Laps telemetry app running, and your laps with it land in F1Laps. That shows you whether it is faster than what you had.