Example of banging against the soft rev-limiter in 3rd gear, partway through my last track vid (no auto-upshift). You'll see a downshift to 3rd going into a right-hander, then just banging on the redline in 3rd for a sec before braking for the next right and then passing that vette:
TWS CCW 2012-03-03 TDE Blue4 - 370Z - YouTube