F2007 front wheel graphical glitch

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Tried searching but was unable to find any threads outside of the marketplace with people wanting the car itself.

Anyways, does anyone know if there has been any acknowledgment of this bug by PD and if they intend to fix it? Though I don't drive this car very often it's really distracting especially when racing against other F2007s since the rim doesn't even spin. :grumpy:

If there isn't any word on this is there a way to get bug reports to PD more directly? Thanks in advance!
 
It's not a glitch, bug or error.
The car is fitted with the aero wheel covers which were fitted to all the F1 cars of the 07 season, they didn't move as they were designed to be a rigid structure to help manage air flow.

Ferrari developed a new rim cover, but this time it has been so thoroughly developed that it doesn't rotate with the wheel any more. The new cover is fitted inside the front wheel to help brake disk cooling. The assembly comes with a newly developed wheel nut (see left image). The nut consist of a central, silver coloured part that does not rotate and is fixed to the wheel axis. Around it is a blue part that does rotate with the wheel. When the fronts wheels are now changed during a pit stop, the carbon rim cover comes off with the nut as one part. After a new tyre is fitted, the wheel nut is again put on with the help of a specially developed screwer to ease handling for the pit crew.

The new system is ingenious in a way that it allows for the cooling exit (opening in lower left of right image) can stay at the same location all through the lap and hereby increase brake cooling and wheel aerodynamic efficiency. The fixed location meanwhile also has the benefit that it washes away earlier protests of rivalling teams who claim that the wheel covers (the ones that rotate with the wheel itself) are forbidden moveable aerodynamic devices.
 
scruffygreysei
It's not a glitch, bug or error.
The car is fitted with the aero wheel covers which were fitted to all the F1 cars of the 07 season, they didn't move as they were designed to be a rigid structure to help manage air flow.

Ferrari developed a new rim cover, but this time it has been so thoroughly developed that it doesn't rotate with the wheel any more. The new cover is fitted inside the front wheel to help brake disk cooling. The assembly comes with a newly developed wheel nut (see left image). The nut consist of a central, silver coloured part that does not rotate and is fixed to the wheel axis. Around it is a blue part that does rotate with the wheel. When the fronts wheels are now changed during a pit stop, the carbon rim cover comes off with the nut as one part. After a new tyre is fitted, the wheel nut is again put on with the help of a specially developed screwer to ease handling for the pit crew.

The new system is ingenious in a way that it allows for the cooling exit (opening in lower left of right image) can stay at the same location all through the lap and hereby increase brake cooling and wheel aerodynamic efficiency. The fixed location meanwhile also has the benefit that it washes away earlier protests of rivalling teams who claim that the wheel covers (the ones that rotate with the wheel itself) are forbidden moveable aerodynamic devices.
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Exactly - an aero device that is now banned.
 
scruffygreysei
It's not a glitch, bug or error.
The car is fitted with the aero wheel covers which were fitted to all the F1 cars of the 07 season, they didn't move as they were designed to be a rigid structure to help manage air flow.

Ferrari developed a new rim cover, but this time it has been so thoroughly developed that it doesn't rotate with the wheel any more. The new cover is fitted inside the front wheel to help brake disk cooling. The assembly comes with a newly developed wheel nut (see left image). The nut consist of a central, silver coloured part that does not rotate and is fixed to the wheel axis. Around it is a blue part that does rotate with the wheel. When the fronts wheels are now changed during a pit stop, the carbon rim cover comes off with the nut as one part. After a new tyre is fitted, the wheel nut is again put on with the help of a specially developed screwer to ease handling for the pit crew.

The new system is ingenious in a way that it allows for the cooling exit (opening in lower left of right image) can stay at the same location all through the lap and hereby increase brake cooling and wheel aerodynamic efficiency. The fixed location meanwhile also has the benefit that it washes away earlier protests of rivalling teams who claim that the wheel covers (the ones that rotate with the wheel itself) are forbidden moveable aerodynamic devices.
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:drool: Thank you for the enlightenment. It just looks so strange that I always thought it was part of the wheel texture that wasn't behaving properly. Very informative post. 👍
 

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