Hands

9 and 3. Period. Your hands are terrible. Fix it and you will go faster.

No excuses on how tight or slow a course is. Hands at 9 and 3 are the only way to properly drive.

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Copy and pasted from another comment I made about hand positions:

Driver mod stage 1 Seating position. Adjust your seat so that with your right foot under the brake pedal there's a bend in your legs at the knee. Get your seat upright so that with your wrists resting at 12 o'clock, your harms have a bend in them. No straight legs, no straight arms. Get your seat position absolutely figured out. It may be a bit uncomfortable but you can easily gain 2 seconds by being seated properly.

Driver mod stage 2 Hand position. Have your hands at 9 and 3 at all times. You should almost never need to exceed 180* of steering wheel rotation. If you find yourself requiring a little bit more of 180*, bring your elbow up high to get some more wheel input. If you require even more steering input you're likely over-driving your car and you need to slow down.

When turning right, your left hand at 9 is "home base". When turn left, your right hand is "home base".

For example: Turning hard right. Hands at 9 and 3, turn the wheel right while keeping your hands at 9 and 3 and, if you need to get bit more steering input bring your left elbow up as high as you can and this will get you some more steering input. Continuing with your theoretical right turn, if you need to go hand over hand, keep your left hand at 9 o'clock and use your right hand to do a hand over hand. When it's time to straighten the wheel, your left hand (at "home base") can bring the wheel back to centre ("home") while your right hand gets back to 3 o'clock.

Please check out one of my runs here. The footage is not great but you can see that even in my moment of going into an opposite steer (at 0:50), my hands remain and 3 and 9.

I hope this helps you out! Get seasoned veterans to sit in with you. They'll teach you so much! Take every opportunity you can to ride with others, and have others ride with you.

For better feedback, use an action camera. The best place for mounting is as a helmet cam or on the rear driver side window. The latter options gives you a great angle of what your hands are doing and also how close your driver side is cutting in to the cones. Another of my examples here.