Autocross Techniques

[shotgunslade]

I'm thinking about taking an autocross course and was wondering about driving techniques that work in an SVX The car is a heavy understeerer and being all wheel drive doesn't offer the opportunity for power-on oversteer coming out of corners. During the last few track days that I did, I was testing out trail braking as a strategy for getting the car to rotate in very tight corners. The strategy requires a delicate foot, because you have to move from limit braking while you are still going in a straight line to lesser braking when you turn in. If you continue limit braking at turn-in, the front tires break loose and you don't turn at all. I remember one very tight corner on the Pocono double infield course, where I could get the rear to come around quite a bit using this technique, allowing me to get on the accelerator sooner with very little cornering left to do, and thus little power-on uindersteer coming out of the corner.

Does this technique work in autocross? What other techniques have you found effective for getting our buggy to dance from cone to cone?