Reference points

You cannot drive the same line twice from feel alone. Reference points give you a map: a brake board, the end of a curb, a seam in the asphalt, a sign or a cone. Each corner typically needs at least four: braking point, turn-in, apex and track-out.

Choose things that will not move. Tire marks change and parked cars leave. Pick markers you can see early, in your peripheral vision, so you are already looking ahead when you reach them. Some HPDE events put out cones at key points for novices.

Use reference points to make one change at a time: brake one car length later than that board, turn in at the curb seam instead of before it. Without them, every lap is a new guess, and it is impossible to tell what made a lap faster.