How about same-same, but different?
I think if you read the Car and Driver article passage where they talk about the advice the Mazda engineers gave them for getting a fast 0-60 time, you might sleep a little better:
"Calls to Mazda yielded tips: Pop the clutch at 2900 rpm, upshift at 6000--redline is 6700--and flat-shift through second and third (which means don't lift at all--the mechanical equivalent of dropping a Steinway on the clutch and half-shafts and violating our test procedure).
"'Don't worry,' the engineers said, 'it won't break.'"