I recently bought a Xfire 2005 Coupe Baseline manual.

its it normal for this car to pull over 3500 RMP's to get a smooth 1rst gear shift?
the clutch feels very smooth, and 2nd,3rd to 6th gear have absolutely no issues, only 1rst gear is really hard when releasing the clutch slowly. sometimes i rather start with 2nd gear as it feels smoother and doesn't need high RPM's.

its annoying when the car is completely stopped as it will start stalling on 1rst gear with low RMP's.

suggestions?