You know what? It's fun when users onLFS's forum start to promote other games (not to talk about devs advicing people to do the same as well) .
Imagine Jobs twitting to just go and buy a Samsung Galaxy while he's thinking about a new iPad.
At least i have my ten minutes laugh every time i see the same old childish answers to legit questions.
Nah, there's much more.
Some people think this place is theirs (thanks to the lack of partecipation by of the devs) and no new users can state their opinion.
It's a bit like an exclusive club with a very light entry fee but it makes you feel like you've got the absolute wisdom.
New racers? No way, they'll surely act like crashers and grammarrapers.
Game development questions? You better think about that twice, boy.
You're so right, in both those posts. Exactly the way it goes here, unfortunately.
On topic: what I've started with, is basically the standard hard track and Race_S setups. Slightly adjusting them as I go.
The problem I see with using track-based setups, like on setupgrid, is that they're all quite different, which still gives you a different feeling of the car with every setup you use.
I've always preferred using the standard race_s and hard track setups whenever I needed to get used to a car, and slightly modify them myself to the track i use it on. In my opinion, that's the best way to get started.
Accordingly, whenever you have the feeling you can control the car properly, you can move onto setups on setupgrid.
Anyway, that's just the way I started and was comfortable with.. might not apply for you though. Atleast you're already tinkering with sets, so you're willing to learn.