I got positive proof of a truckload of fixes in the game that are NOT in the documentation. They've even fixed bugs that we didn't report, like the "broken realistic weather" slider, "artifacts on the tyres". Also the liveries have gotten an overhaul.
The "Weird Red spots and brake discs" have been fixed. And I cannot, no matter what I do, get the psycho glossy look on the cars anymore. No more seeing a reflection of your grandma in the grandstands on the car.
However, not everything has been fixed. The lap chart "retired from race" boxes are still all over the place. And there are still some typos in the "track info" boxes.
But at a first glance the patch does look like a postive and decent piece of work. I hope my opinion stays like that.
And to those of you that have problems with the patch, try uninstalling everything, reinstalling and extracting the patch to temp folder. Then run the setup in the patch and apply it. It worked like a charm for me.
It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.