Well, the first hand experience would definitely be awesome, but the first problem is to get there... flying from Frankfurt to Vancouver (and back) would be about 900€ (1200-1300 canadian dollar)... they even offer flights that take 36h, with a 21h stay in Dallas, TX, the 20h flight via Amsterdam looks a bit more comfortable.
The best thing for the virtual track then would propably be a track walk, armed with camera and notepad.
Shame on me with the white lines, i read that somewhere, but pushed a bit to hard on that lap, now that you say it... i propably could teach the game to give me a cut warning (and disqualify that lap time) if i run over it, but after the second warning, every following will be a stop and go penalty in the game. And in the game, you naturally push harder and go over the limit then in a real car, as a new car is just 2 mouse-clicks away (except in a race of course). So it would happen regularly, resulting in frustrated players.
Another of these compromises (that i am currently not really happy with) is the pit exit. As you can see, i only have traffic cones halfway from pit exit to turn 1, on the straight. But if i saw it right in the videos, you have them all the way up and into the first corner. I already have an idea how to prevent the players to just ignore and run them over, thats why i placed them like i did at the moment. Hadnt the time to test it yet.