Originally Posted by Leslie
Depends how tight the course is. If it's a course like Sunriders always have, you'll use mostly first gear, but if you go out to something like Brooksville, you'll use 2nd quite a bit also. WRXs are geared very tall, so you'll use a lot of 1st gear, and especially in tight turns, since you'll just lag the the hell out of it trying to stay in 2nd.
My 2 cents says that 90% of Subaru drivers could just drive faster around the rest of the course instead of going to 1st gear and net faster times all around.
