Dean, Before I got my 76 or my 91 Z my oldest friend from college in Colorado where I'm going in a week to celebrate their 50th is friends with Dave Hill and his wife and a couple times they were at dinner with us. I would love to talk to Dave now as he was on duty for C5 and C6 then retired. he came from caddy and has a racing background.
Dave told Dick who passed it on to me that when they were building the C5 and C6 they built the transmission so that you could just slam it from first to second, second to third, third to fourth without even touching the clutch for racing though it would shorten the life of some of the components....They slammed them around on prototypes on test tracks and streets pretty hard he told Dick. Dave was the Corvette Chief Engineer for the C5 and 6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Hi...otive_engineer)
One of the other things in the video is that in several you can see what I feel when I push mine: the front end lifts when you are in the next gear up momentarily.
Did you have tire issues, Dean?
Lance