Yeah, we both knew. I revved, he looked, I nodded ahead, he nodded. We went.

The autostick should never be faster than a manual because the autostick is just a tiptronic setup, not sequential. tiptronic autos are far too complex so they leech a lot of the horsepower from the engine. It may be faster than someone that doesn't know how to drive manual, but a manual transmission is far less complex and as such provides more power through the transaxel to the wheels.