Originally Posted by CivicSiRacer
You should be able to stand at the start line and close your eyes to visually know where each corner, braking point and apex are. Force youself to stick to those lines when you drive your car.
This was my biggest problem when I did the Tour event at Peru last month. Our local courses are fairly short (we usually do parts twice to get 50 second runs or so) and easily learned. The national level course was a whole different story. I walked it 3-4 times each day and was still lost once I got past the first 3 corners, or so. As the results show.
Good advice on getting someone to ride along. Or, better yet, get some old hand to drive your car during a fun run and ride along. Back when I thought I was getting everything I could out of my old Escort, I had one of the elder competitors drive it. Coming from a completely different car (C/P Mustang), he was still 1.5 seconds quicker than I was.