It is mostly steering wheel. The wheels tended to be tied to the engine, I assume for electronic reasons.
Della Penna and Newman Haas both ran Swift Ford combinations, but ran different wheels. Della Penna is the standard Swift one, Newman Haas is a custom one. The Penske wheel is a modified Mercedes wheel, and the 2 PacWest cars had different wheels, again based on the Mercedes ones.
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> Oh wow, so really advanced then. Anything complex
> like that eagle on the nosecone of one of the
> cars, or the polygons scattered on Gil de Ferran's
> car?
Those are surprisingly easy. The Eagle is a breeze. The random Vs (if you look closely they are actually Valvoline Vs) on de Ferrans car were technically easy, just time consuming. de Ferrans livery changed 3 of 4 times too, and in pre-season testing they ran a scattered paint version of the livery that wasn't made up of Vs. So it is basically just as accurate as can be realistically achieved without having the blue prints of the original livery.
The helmets left are JJ Lehto, Robby Gordon and Greg Moore. Moores helmet changed 3 times, all variation were ugly, and one of them was completely chromed and looked utterly stupid. Robby ran 3 helmets too, all of them with an annoying flag that'll take forever. JJ had feathers on his which will take a ridiculous amount of work again.
I've redone a lot of helmets over the past couple of weeks. Tony Kanaan got a brand new lid, as well as new Reynard parts (front windscreen is gone, replaced with a solid part, and the engine cover is "IRL spec".
Scott Pruett got a new helmet too.
And Bryan Herta.
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