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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warhorse Racing" data-source="post: 1509848" data-attributes="member: 23098">The "rear tire arc line" is also known as "backsiding" the cones. His explanation is accurate. Other people might refer to it as "putting the rear quarter panel 'on' the cone you're turning past." The goal is to give yourself as much distance between cones while running a smooth line (an "S" not a "Z"). That will enable you to be faster. In order to backside a cone, you need to initiate your turn ahead of the cone. If you wait until you're at the cone to initiate your turn, the car will carry past the cone and you'll have to make a slower/sharper steering input around the next cone. Being late (not properly backsiding) tends to cascade, making you later and later on subsequent cones. If you are late on the 1st slalom cone, you'll either hit the 3rd cone, or have to slow way down to make it. If you haven't already watched it, check out my "How the WRONG LINE COSTS YOU TIME" video. Everything opens up when you make early steering inputs. Many course designers create courses that punish drivers for being late entering elements, so there's a ton of time to be found by attacking the first cone in a section correctly.</blockquote>