There was a good article about this in the SCCA magazine last year. The transition for autocrosser to road racer is typically easier than vice versa, but not to say one was more dominant than the other in either sport. I plan to do an amateur autocross school day in a few weeks which my chapter has for $50. They have these once a year and I did it a couple of years ago. You run the course, get some times, then just work on exercises of technique most of the day (throttle steering, slalom, etc.). Then you run again at the end of the day and the times usually drop. This is on a Saturday, the regular autocross is the next day on Sunday.ProctorSilex wrote:I got into motor sports via autocrossing my Scion xA econobox, which does not do well in an autocross (yet does not do too horribly on a road course). I was a terrible autocrosser and probably still am. I rode with instructors (including national champions): ...
Not sure if they have this in your area Dale, but they're worth the money. I saw people there that have been running for years still working on technique. They also sometimes have a national champion come in a do a full weekend which is like $500 and the usual top-10 people signed up quickly for it when they had it last summer.
Glad to hear that thorough our help that there has been a change in your auto-X skills. It would have bothered me if there hadn’t been a change… even backwards. Actually, that shouldn't be that unusual as you get so much in your head that you are trying to remember it distracts you from what you are trying to do. Sooner or later it all is going to become second nature and then the real progress will begin. 
