Use the I button on your KB when you first try the track offline and let the AI show you the way, they are useful for something.
Been there, done that. Offline practice is a solution, except when I get on the server online I end up in a different garage spot. So I have to work up the GARAGE area and work up the track? I want to drive and I want to race. I don't really care how pretty the garage area is. If there are markings on the ground, that'd be fine. The other problem is that I've been on tracks where the arrows pointed in the wrong damn direction. I'm in the garage area doing circles and on many tracks, the exit to that garage hell is not usually marked. So which of the 4 exits from the place goes to the track? Either start us in the pits by pit lane or clearly mark the way to pit lane.
Just one out of four. Check it out If don't want - do not play it. I'm going to think that sims are to complex for you.