I'm sure a very small amount of people would drop the clutch at 6000RPM... About 5 years ago, they were power-shifting, if they were in the redline nothing was a problem or even mentionned. They were just test driving to know the best possible 0-60 times and no matter what, when checking 0-60 times, everybody knew they had to add a few .2-.3 seconds... Now they are doing more realistic tests and i'm sure people prefer that.
Anyway, the STi will be fast, real-fast.
Sylvain