Originally Posted by onehundred80
Maximum efficiency for acceleration is reached near the 'sweet spot', after that power is falling off. The 'sweet spot' is not to be found at 6,000rpm on this car, just look at the torque curves to be seen on this site.
Maximum acceleration will be achieved when the revs are kept within the power band, that relatively flat zone at the top of the power curve.
Having the car cut out when you hit the rev limiter may impress you and your buddies but on a race track you will be thought to have missed a gear, or even be missing some brains.
That's why you shift right before you hit the rev limiter. It's not just a matter of what's happening when you're in the current gear, but where the R's end up after your shift. You don't want to shift so much before red line that you drop out of the power band when you hit the next gear, right?