More on driving
Tipping, flipping and even occassionally driving over cones with the wheels will happen. You've got to come as close as possible to some of the key cones to make the distance shorter and the turns smooth.

Center punching cones is bad. There's a few causes and indicates potential problems on a high speed, higher risk track.

1. Looking at the cones. The car will go where you look. You must look ahead to where you want the car to go.
2. Course is unclear. The most important thing to do at any event is learn the course. Knowing where to go makes it much easier to look ahead.
3. Overdriving the front wheels. Timing the right amount of speed, braking and power is the goal. Too much speed in any turn, and autocrosses are all turns, and the car goes straight because the front tires are overloaded.
A slalom is the one place where it is more likely that too much speed will not centerpunch a cone. In a slalom, too much speed more often results in fishtail and around you go.

Looking where you want the car to go is really really important to learn to do. It helps driving and just as important it will help when crashing. After all, you don't want to crash into the tree , but the hopefully safer grassy area next to the trees.
Pobst "On Being a Good Crasher"