Yes, you can certainly play around with shift points to a degree...
So for instance mine makes peak at 5800. At 6200 it only falls off maybe 10hp at most. So I geared to through the traps at 6200 and the timslip was favorable. However push it past that and the time slows. I've short shifted some of my cars before the marked redine only to go faster because it was actually making power and dropping the RPm upon shifting into the tq band.
