The Corniche Circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is already on it’s fourth event in the 2024 season and game. It’s got a mixed reception among fans – it’s not one of my favourites – but it’s definitely got it’s own unique style and there aren’t really any other tracks like it with the mix of street circuit vibes with super high speeds.

 

For a race setup, it has in the past been medium downforce, but with the weirdly over-powered straight line speed and ERS/DRS effect on F1 24, you probably need to move down to a low-medium downforce setup to stay competitive on the straights.

Here’s my current general dry race setup for Jeddah for a pad user:

• Wings – 16/18
• Diff – 10/55/50
• Camber – -3.50/-2.20/0.05/0.20
• Suspension –  38-5-15-10-23-58
• Brakes – 100% Pressure/53% Bias
• Tyre pressures – Fronts 28.0; Rears maximum

2025 update – Coming back to this game after all the patches, I’ve bumped the off throttle diff up to 55 and raised the rear toe from 0.17 to 0.20 to add more stability. The key thing on this track with the twitchy pad handling is to prevent banging into the walls and damaging your wing. I’ve tried to add more stability to the setup to help with this.

Hotlap With This Setup

 

This setup has needed some tweaking over successive seasons, as I think the wings are going to go lower on a lot of my setups now I’m getting the hang of this game.

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Wing Levels – This is still a work in progress for me. I’m starting to see F1 24 is like the ’22 game in terms of needing to use super low wing levels just to stay competitive with the over-powered AI on the straight. Yes, the car is slower in the corners, but having better straight line speed seems to outweigh this weakness overall. Using 20/22 wings was OK but I was still struggling a bit defending. This time, I’ve gone all the way down to 16/18 and it’s much better for racing the AI (18/20 can also work), and next time I might even try 14/16 wings.

Wing Spacing – Setting the rear wing 2 clicks above the front isn’t a popular approach, but I did it on the ’23 game as well and it makes traction easier out of corners on a pad, especially on worn tyres. Wheel users are sometimes using super aggressive wings like 25/15 – good luck making that work on a pad! I prefer stability and easier traction with my setups.

Responsiveness – Jeddah is a really tricky circuit in the sense it’s very easy to hit the walls and damage your wing in sectors 2 and 3 if your car is too nervous and responsive. My setup tries to deaden the handling to avoid this, but if you want to further calm down the front end, you can drop the suspension and roll bars even more, as well as raising your Off Throttle Diff. Do the reverse of these if you want MORE responsiveness from the handling.

Tyre Pressures/Temps – I’ve kept the tyre pressures even across both sides front and rear in the above setup to keep things simple. But if you want to get technical, the right hand side tyres overheat more than the left hand side round this track, so you can set the right hand side pressures slightly higher to keep the temps down (you can try something like this: Front right 28.0, Front left 27.0; Rear right 26.5, Rear left 25.5). But honestly, for me at least it doesn’t really seem to make a great deal of difference. But you need to keep your rear pressures at max or close to it as the rear right rear especially overheats quite readily.

Intermediate Conditions – You’re almost never going to encounter this at Jeddah, but if you do, just use your dry setup but with the rear wing set 3 clicks above the front for easier control on a pad. You can also raise the wings 1-2 clicks, use minimum On Throttle Diff and you can very slightly soften the suspension and raise the ride height if desired.

Full Wet Conditions – Again, hardly ever likely to encounter this at Jeddah unless someone’s being mischievous in an online lobby, but for full wet races you need to make some more obvious changes to the wings and suspension.

Here’s a starter wet race setup for Saudi Arabia for a pad user:

• Wings – 23/26
• Diff – 10/60/50
• Camber – -3.50/-2.20/0.05/0.20
• Suspension –  35-4-12-8-26-61
• Brakes – 100% Pressure/53% Bias
• Tyre pressures – Middle pressures all tyres

Again, this is just a starting point and there’s a lot of leeway with the wings you use – anything from 20 to 27 might work.

More Setup Resources For Jeddah

You need lower wings and straight line speed round here for sure on this game, but there’s different ways you can go with wing spacing especially.

My setups are designed to be easier to control, but if you’re looking for more aggressive TT style setups, here are some more resources to check out:

• My generic starter setup will also work fine on this track if you apply the wing levels and Diff settings as above.
• F1laps.com Jeddah page – Another car setup forum with pages for every track, and loads of custom setups posted, both TT and race, all cars, all conditions.
• F1gamesetup.com – An even more specialized resource with custom setups, every car and every track, wet and dry weather.
• Sim Racing Centre (Not Free) – Need to buy these setups, but they’re higher end aggressive eSports style setups that can be faster but also harder to control on a pad. Be aware they’re designed primarily on a wheel, so talk with their support if you’re a pad user. A potential option but probably more for advanced users looking for top level speed.

Jeddah Racing & Strategy Tips

ERS (Quali) – You’ve got loads of the fastest Overtake ERS mode to use on Quali laps in online lobbies since 1.10 update, so basically use it anywhere you can to boost top speed on the straights. Overtake seems to work best in conjunction with DRS in 8th gear – it really pushes up your top speed. Keep an eye on your green ERS bar – you’re looking to drain it just as finish a flying lap (there’s a bug in offline GP/career game modes though where the AI never deploy Overtake on Qualifying laps, so it gives human players an unfair advantage to use it offline).

First Lap – It’s a narrow track for the first few corners and cars can bunch up on the first lap. Much like Baku, it’s one of those tracks where it’s best to just get through the first lap rather than streaming in trying to make up a load of places. Wing damage on lap 1 here really ruins your race, as the combination of losing time changing your front wing and also dropping out the DRS train tends to put you right to the back and it’s very hard to recover after that (I’ve screwed up two races here already doing that).

Sector 1 – The “esses” in this sector are tricky but satisfying to get right. On a pad, you need to thread the car through using partial throttle whilst avoiding the raised kerbs (will spit the car off the track). Go on full throttle only once the car is pointing straight. Won’t be your strongest sector using my setup (invert the wings to be stronger here), but avoid the kerbs and you’ll be fine.

Tyre/Pit Strategy – The soft is unusable round most tracks, but for a shorter race you can use it for 3-5 laps at Jeddah, and then go onto a harder tyre. Otherwise, it’s a medium-hard strategy all the way round here. Because of all the successive DRS zones, the undercut can be really strong round here as the AI waste loads of time battling each other. Come in 1-3 laps early and you can leap-frog a bunch of fighting cars in front (this has been the case at Jeddah on the last few games).

Defending (Race) – Strategic ERS use and conservation is a must here with 3 long DRS zones. Firstly, your wings need to be low enough to fend off the AI on the straights (I wouldn’t go higher than 18 with the rear wing). Then use your ERS only in the DRS zones, more specifically the pit straight and the straight just before the final corner. These two zones seem to be where the AI go for overtakes most aggressively. Just use it here to defend and let it recharge the rest of the lap if you need to hold position.