Started myself to simrace with Geoff Crammond's GP1 - 1991. You see, if time and age would translate into experience, I should be able to plow you ten inches deep under the tarmac!
But its okay, I enjoy it the way I use it. And online play never was my thing anyway. Currently I make sure I log 2 x 15-20 rounds per day. It makes me a safer, less accident-haunted driver - but no faster driver.