RUBBISH, the consoles ARE a genuinely useful learning tool.

You need to have been out with mongo to comment, within 5 laps he was TOTALLY on the pace (ask MikeR) and his only experience before that was 2K laps or so on the play station.
I think he was actually a few seconds quicker than me in the same car in fact!
And he pointed out a few lines I had wrong, and Id been round it at least 100 times at that point and he was on his first ever real life lap as a passenger at the time

Its VERY useful practice on the games.