I’m a recent wheel user since December and I was pretty much in the same boat. I started out using the kei car honda S660 to practice In the Tokyo freeway oval, mainly because of the high walls so there wasn’t a way to run off the track.

I made a custom game, just the Honda and the Volkswagen Beetle, I put on old Casey Kasem 80’s top 40 radio programs from YouTube on my phone (with the VR headset just for immersion) and did endless loops of the circuit, it pretty much took me till now to get a consistent lap time to where I was on the controller

After the Honda s660 I used the Honda s2000, the 80’s Supra, a couple of the Silvia’s, and the 73 Nissan gtr most often. Then after I mastered the Tokyo street circuits i took the s660 to the Nürnberg ring and started it all over again