https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41222
--- Comment #23 from Antti Sokero antti.sokero@gmail.com --- I have the same problem when trying to play rFactor with my old Logitech Momo (black) wheel. On some games such as LFS and Richard Burns Rally the Force feedback seems to work fine (although I´m unable to make comparison to playing the same games under Windows).
In rFactor the wheel works fine other than the fact that FFB is not present. While in the game menus the force seems to be some what present and the wheel resists of turning it. Immediately after entering the actual game the wheel goes to a mode without any resistance.
At the moment it seems that on Logitech Momo (as with Logitech Driving Force GT), only constant force is supported. The effect support status on different wheels can be followed for example here: https://github.com/Eliasvan/Linux-Force-Feedback/wiki/Supported-Devices. I quess there is not yet change for better even in the most recent kernels.
Just to add information I attached a logfile of rFactor (WINEDEBUG=+dinput), on - Ubuntu 16.04 - wine-1.9.23 - Kernel 4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu
Playable demo of rFactor can be downloaded here: http://rfactor.net/web/rf1/