[cgroppi]

For the slalom, I think you just need seat time. Hitting cones because you're early on them is not that bad of a problem. Being late is. Just try to get the car on the backside of each and every cone, especially the first cone in the slalom. If you hit cones, you hit cones. That will eventually go away as you learn the car.

As an example of a line into a pivot, see the attached video at 0:34 entering the slalom. I approach relatively widely, turn in early, and place the car relatively close to the cone, but I am driving a constant radius arc through the corner. You don't want to break it up into "turn-straight-turn". Not that this run is perfect or anything. I could make a long list of mistakes, and I know I wouldn't catch them all.