Driving Clinic at Verona:Thanks to Rick and Eric for organizing this very successful autocross driving clinic. They began with lectures covering the basics of autocross driving: car preparation, acceleration, braking, and turning. After walking the autocross course, the students were divided into small groups for intensive practice driving a slalom (weaving in and out past a row of cones), a Chicago box (a three-cone slalom disguised in a C-shaped wall of cones), a keyhole (drivers pass through a narrow gate, drive around a cone, and return through the gate), and a long straight (acceleration and braking). In the afternoon, these elements were combined to form an autocross course. Finally, there was a circular skidpad to teach the limits of turning traction.
