We have this little beeper thingie that we can set that reminds us we're close to the rev limiter. If we hear the beeper thingie, and there's plenty of full throttle left, and there's a lot of high-speed stuff coming up after the next slowdown, we'll usually go to the next gear. There's plenty of torque, so nothing to worry about there, and we can just focus on the line we want to drive, etc. instead of whether we're going to be slamming into the rev limiter repeatedly.
I was in 1st gear for the first 3 turns (for maximum rotation/ fun factor), 2nd gear (close to rev limit) the rest of the way down the runway (most Laurinburg runway configurations = 3rd all the way, btw), shifted into 3rd coming out of the last element before the turnaround at the end, then back to 2nd in the turnaround, went to 3rd going into the sweeper (short-shifting), and heard the beeper (set at 6000rpm) go off well before braking for the slalom on the taxiway, but didn't quite hit the limiter. Stayed in 3rd until the right hander before the Chicago box, then was in 2nd for the rest of the course. Brian wouldn't have been in 4th, but he might've hit rev limiter in 3rd. If he'd gone to 4th, he would've had to deal with braking + downshift + going into a diagonal, offset (the bad way) slalom at 75mph... right where his car ate dirt at the T&T - and where there was now something much more scary to hit.
And I know he's too smart to try that more than once.
At the T&T, I was in 3rd after leaving the "P", then shifted to 4th well before the finish. I looked down as I crossed the line once, and the speedometer was indicating around 85mph just after the finish.
The 2.5RS has pretty much the same shift points as the STi, and the shifting to 3rd deal is about the same. I think I've touched rev limiter in 3rd on 3 different courses - one was at VMP, 1 at Laurinburg, 1 at Sanford, IIRC.
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I did notice that since we were on a grippy surface there were no "hack" mobiles in the top ten indexed 
