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Originally Posted by Too Tall
At my second Autocross I believe I missed the same gate 5 out of 6 times. What the absolute @#$%?
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My advice is to read some books that discuss how to walk the course. Or search online. Imagine the line your car will travel -- stand in one spot and imagine it over and over again until you know that part of the course solid. There are other tips, like make sure you walk it once alone without the distraction of others talking. When you drive, you have to look ahead and remember that line you drew in your head, instead of driving gate to gate. It takes time, but the course walk helps a ton with that.
Also, when you go off course and don't know where, get an instructor in the car the next run. Video recording also can help because it allows you to re-visit the course. Keep at it! It gets easier to read the course the more you do it.
Now, if you go to an event at Fed Ex (SCCA, BMW), you'll really want to scream -- you pretty much have to keep your eyes up and read the course on the fly because it's so long.