Rallycross and Autocross: Driving Fast Around Cones

Driving around cones at speed is a critical skill for anyone interested in grassroots racing, autocross, rallycross, HPDE, and any kind of high performance driver training. You will also see some cones and other manmade obstacles on rally courses, road courses, track days, and anywhere the race organizers need to add chicanes or other barriers to competition vehicles.
The keys to success when driving through cones is to fully understand the course that has been laid out, keep your eyes and mental focus well ahead at the road and not fixated on the cones themselves, give yourself extra room on the passenger side of the car, and try to late apex corners as much as possible.
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[@tomci121]

Who read this as "How to drive fast around corners" and was confused for first 30 seconds.

[@jakethesnake1503]

Oh CONES I did read CORNERS

[@dominicancheif117]

Lol I did too

[@georgthesecond]

I was like "why's he talking about cones?"

[@joelh3030]

Pavement>

[@marshallsexton8996]

I saw corners too, i thought the cones were just simulating the corners.

[@musewolfman]

A mistake I made at my first autocross was worrying too much about the car and not enough about myself. I forgot to bring any water. The car performed fine but I got heatsick, and had to go home early.

[@church493]

If one drives in own car one cares about, another hint: painter tape over bumper front/underside (and maybe car sides too) is your friend to protect paint from cone hits. BTW, nice way to mess with one's mind in cone slalom is to space 'em with different intervals. Getting repetitious interval rhythm at constant speed sometimes gets too easy after many tries. One of cones further, one closer, nice way to throw off rhythm.

[@richmoffitt5194]

"Focus on your breathing... Otherwise you'll go out there for a few minutes and come back a little weird." I think many of us enjoy Wyatt's weirdness. ;)

[@Krautastic]

Love your videos. Typically the biggest issue I see people doing is treating the cone too much as the obstacle and not as simply marking out a course. So they look at them and wait until they are past them to initiate the turn. When doing driving instructing, we usually leave out "late apex/early apex" partially because of what you illustrated. You are late apexing, but you are steering early/before the cone. So we concentrate on the language of steering sooner/earlier and don't even say late apex because we don't want the word "late" stuck in their mind. Eyes up, steer early is 90% of the battle for new drivers in rallycross/autocross.

[@TimurIskhodzhanov]

I'd recommend taking it one step further and just saying "wide entry, tight exit". Steering early can still cause early apexing: e.g. in case of a single 90° corner, the turn in for a late apex line is later than a turn in for an early apex line.

[@flyingcarguy]

This is why Team Oneil is the best "rally" school in the country.

[@benasmeilus]

Really good video. Explanations and visuals are well matched , the tips are on the spot. Super good job, thank you

[@albertomondy2964]

Love these! Also totally fine to say be safe first - if we aren't safe we can't have fun the next time out!

[@geraldkeever427]

610th 👍 5👎 5 people like 'Dude chill bro on helping the competition!' Lol fantastic vid man. The air pressure change i made for sure helped the understeer

[@Teamoneilrally]

Awesome, thanks Gerald!

[@jameswohler985]

Good comment on right side cones ... I made that mistake once. Got squeezed at end of a straight opps that might buff out.

[@banginmotorsport7315]

Another great video! Thanks Wyatt

[@DashnCars]

Oh! I know this subject. I've dabbled in cone killing myself!

[@TheArunVincent]

Better change the caption "Driving around VLCs " VLC PLAYER😜

[@accordv6er]

Can you guys do a video on some basic corner and segment layouts to practice? I have the opportunity at our local venue to setup and practice, and I'm not entirely sure what the best reps are to put in

[@Affalterbach1967]

5:06 Late Apex everything way of life !

[@КлиментЦонков]

I love how when he said "here in America" he emphasized his accent lol. 3:57

[@RafaAelM]

I wish I had snow where I live...

[@liamjjg]

Fun as a kid, not as an adult.

[@jacobwallace49]

What are you using to mark the top center of your wheel? I'm assuming it's just white tape?

[@Teamoneilrally]

Yup just white electrical tape. You can get yellow or red if you prefer, we just find that white is easiest to pickup with your peripheral vision in all light conditions.

[@jacobwallace49]

@@Teamoneilrally Thanks for the reply. I love your channel. ✌️

[@yagzoksum1214]

1.comment Love your stuff

[@eur1gys]

Whayat you're a rock star !!!!

[@josephtalbot125]

I was looking at the American Rally Association's website, to find the most basic, entry-level class a person could enter. It looks like 2wd limited. Is that correct? It seems like there should be a class for near stock vehicles.

[@SergioSteghi]

Please more videos from onboard cam)

[@Big-Monkey-Man]

I want to live somewhere with snow 😭

[@wakeupandbord]

"halfway safe space" I got lots of those!

[@toothpicdinosaur3777]

I just wanna learn how to drive on snow and mud quickly without breaking stuff. Racing is cool, but sometimes driving home/work is at the edge of my limits. Though I was a good driver till i moved out of the city.

[@finngurgens3264]

Shameless plug for SCCA RallyCross, with relatively little money you can really learn a whole lot about going fast.

[@nilochoye]

The drone footage is rad

[@jakethesnake1503]

How do I initiate a fast corner entry in a WRX without first understeering? I understeer get off gas understeer more, then use gas and AWD finally does a controlled turn.

[@dominicancheif117]

I'd say try to learn and practice trail braking

[@Yarf.McBarf]

Lift, turn, brake

[@Teamoneilrally]

Check out this one we did about rallying AWD cars: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXucc2mtoaylhs0

[@David-bj7ym]

Best channel on youtube!

[@shngsam8777]

another great video! thanks! the last point is very important, remember to breath and also keep yourself fit all the time i notice those professional drivers spent a lot of time doing exercise and keep their body in top condition

[@jakeells66]

"halfway safe"... Never all the way safe, halfway safe is good enough.

[@xinwen7730]

Henry cavill can drive too?

[@k24hybrid]

Nice!

[@brendanroy514]

What's the age limit for the rally school?

[@Teamoneilrally]

As long as they can reach the pedals and steering wheel safely, they're good. We've had 14 year olds through the course with no problems.

nice

[@Sibiriuss]

Welcome back to KZbin Wyatt, I'm Aleks. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge, again and again! Great content, love you guys. Hope we'll meet one day. Cheers!

[@Sibiriuss]

I listen to your advices, tried many things you told me/us. Suprisingly some of them were harder than they seemed, and you were right 99% of the time. Also you always say we should keep training and pushing ourselves, so great motivational speech there as well! Thank you once more for being such a guy. Passionate and caring. We all appreciate you! Keep doing your best, looking forward for whatever content you put!

[@Adamiata]

Ease up on the caffeine, Wyatt.