Personal notes for simmulation presentation

In class last week I wrote down some notes that I thought might pertain to the presentation by Betty, Dan and I.
Somatic: to physically simmulate an action. dictionary.com and wikipedia were my only references, and they only gave a biological description of the word. I was thinking that I could incorporate the idea of somatic action to the player of a racing game, and how the player is literally replicating a physical action that needs to be done in order to operate the car.
There is also a certain amount of editing involved on the part of the player because it is necessary to choose the make, model and color of the car, as well as the race track and the number of opponents. In fact, the player controls pretty much everything within the racing except for how the race will turn out.
We also talked in class about how the majority of the console-based games we will and have discussed, are of Japanese origin and are inspired by Western culture. The racing game is different; it is the original if not the only game of Western, more specifically, American origin, and it is inspired by the real events of a huge American sub-culture (Nascar). Football games like Madden are also examples of simmulated games uniquely attributed to American culture.
correct me if I'm wrong.