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Bloody hell thats a BIG post, I can see what essentially what it is that you are saying.
having never raced a car (let alone driven one, still got one more year before I can!), I wouldn't hope to fully understand the flaws that sims have, but on some circuits i can go really quite fast but still be wildly off line, and in some cases off track.
My dad used to race in racing school races at Brands Hatch, and he has a penchant for driving fast on the road (particularly on the coutry lanes around where he grew up when we visit grandparents), and even from sitting in the back seat, you can still get a feeling of what the car is doing through the seat, which you cannot hope to get in a sim. Other problems I have with sims are the sort of things to do with racing towards something, viewed from a 2-dimensional perspective on a screen, and you simply have a seriously reduced sense of distance from things, and there is also a distinct lack of feeling from the brakes, so it becomes almost inevitable that you'll lock up the brakes.
Also there is a particular lack of any sense of what to do in a spin, meaning resorting to trying one thing afer another, and hoping not to spin, and even with experience it is still very hard to tell quite what is going on.
What I think really shows up the innacuracies is the amount of people that can drive GPL, or any other game very quickly, faster than the best of the time after just maybe one year of practice, and the comparitively few who can hope to do it in the real world
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