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I see there is no S7 setup besides the racer...here is one that will keep you very stable, tracks used for a test bed?

Maplevalley for the long sweepers, Atlanta for the quick turns, Nurburgring for High Speed and overall testing, test Oval for gearing (damn good if you ask me for under 600hp)

this is a very basic overall setup, and little tweaking is needed if any to be at home on any track.

One of the biggest complaints was the squirlyness of the s7 while at 150+ speeds, this was my target, to make it comfortably stable at high speed without sacrificing what makes the s7 so great, its turning power!

The gears might seem long but real test specs are 0-60 in 3.8secs and 0-100 in under 6secs , also allows for better gearing past 100mph, which is where you spend most of the time in the saleen especially in the turns blowing anything away short of P1 cars!

Tires:
Front: 38psi
Rear: 27psi

Gearing: all speeds are at rev limit not redline
FD: 3:45
1st: 1.70 (96mph)
2nd: 1.31 (126mph)
3rd: 1.05 (158mph)
4th: 0.88 (188mph)
5th: 0.75 (195mph+)
6th: 0.66 (200mph+)

Alignment: very critical for the S7 and took me many laps to get the very best imo
Camber:
Front: -0.4
Rear: 0.4 (yes positive, at speeds above 150mph S7 hits -2.0 in rear if not, part of instability)

Toe: (yes very high, also part of instability at high speed, 1.2 has also been used but i liked the feel of 1.0 at 185+)
Front: -1.0
Rear: -0.3

Caster:
Front: 6.0

Anti-Roll: probably the S7's most trickiest settings besides springs
Front: 18.0
Rear: 3.7

Springs: very tricky indeed
Springs:
Front: 643.0 (needed for high speed stiffness)
Rear: 469 (needed much lower for corner stickyness, high speed less impact on rear compression in the S7)

Ride Height: yes these are "high" but again S7 is so good at turning no further improvement needed if anything i needed it to "roll"
Front: 2.9
Rear: 2.9

Damping:
Bump:
Front: 8.0
Rear: 5.1

Rebound:
Front: 14.1
Rear: 11.6

Braking: yes i messed with this, found this setting to be much friendlier allowing highspeed late brake turn ins, which is great for over taking etc...
Balance: 48%
Pressure: 90%

Differential: This was tweaked, but in the end didnt make difference for highspeed turns just the low ones, with my gearing it does very great!
Accel: 35%
Decel: 25%

Testing info:
MapleValley:
About 20-30 laps were run around this very fun course, mainly used for off camber turns, and long sweepers, also to test how my long gears worked on a normal track, turned out great. 1:19's were average laps for testing, and 1:24 was achieved with full blown red tires at lap 15

Atlanta:
Used mainly for its double chicanes, one low speed one high, didnt use laguna because for me thats more driver skill than car settings, and to slow of speed for what i wanted, did run it once and the settings was great so yea.

Nurburgring:
The track that says it all. I ran a good 25laps if not more here, and not one good clean one, raw times were all under 8mins, but penalties left me at the 8+mark. Why so many penalties, because on each lap on each turn i pushed this car hard, to the point of hitting many walls. But in the end led to invaluable test data, like what happens when the S7 takes the turn at a off angel but at optimum speed on normal line? in my setting a dab on the brake and full throttle is all that is needed, no worries . This was also my final place to test 190+ turning speeds....and with a little practice, because not all squirly was removed, you will find it very stable. On some tight turns that 130 was the max in say a enzo or the like, i was hitting 160+ in the saleen. My current time on leaders board is with 20secs of penalty and two 360spins, so plz dont download that setup, it was midway testing setup, the one above is the final result. I also hit 190+ about 5-6 times on the track, almost never going below 90 except for u-turns, even then hit no slower than 75mph

Test Oval:
Here is my gearing madness, with this gearing you can litterally floor it at start and still get off 6sec 0-100 runs. Sure 0-60 is a mere 3.5secs but after that it just pulls. Just pull the trigger and go . Once used to it, i have clicked off a 5.5sec 0-100, so even with long gears it hauls...

Numbers in game:
Are actually probably lower than stock, but in the end its faster and stable, forza uses 0-60 as its ultimate test number not 0-100, nor real world number hittings in races, pay no attention to these

Enjoy my settings, and countless lap runs, this is my tribute to my current favorite supercar.