[Perfectlap]

I'll give you a tip. A good driver mostly does so with his eyes. His/her hands and feets simply follow the band leader so to speak.

Lucky for you this is the YouTube era and XBox/Sim racing era. Go onto YouTube and search for autocross at all your local stadiums. Get in front of a desktop with a mouse (this doesn't work as well on a laptop) and pause the video at every gate/cone/corner. Learn the number of braking points. Count them in your head. Learn to look ahead of where the car is currently at that moment, just like a downhill skier who is looking left but may actually be physically in the process of turning right at that moment. This develops an intuition of what a 'perfectlap' feels like, just like a batter who knows exactly when he's hit the ball out of the park the second contact is made. The mechanics of shifting, braking, throttle and steering is learned with actual seat time, a very long process that can take a year or more to reach just the first phase that separates you from the average driver who has never turned a steering more than 90 degrees. But there's a ton of time in between events that you could use to your benefit by "co-piloting" all of those youTube videos or watching the replays on those sim racing game license tests, the ones where the computer shows you the exact line to take.

once you show up to the actual event this will all go out the window at first because you're fixated on the cockpit action. But the more comfortable you get the more you can put the emphasis back on the eyes, to the point where you aren't even paying attention to what's going on inside the car anymore. But the sharper your "eye game" the quicker the transition will be. People with poor eye game get themselves into positions where their hands and feet have to do a lot of correcting which eats away at their momentum and speed.