I did some calculations of rear wheel force on each gear and plotted them in excel a while back from my dyno curve. I found on my car it's best to shift at redline in all gears, except about 100rpm before on the 4-5th shift.
5th gear, which is similar to top gear is coming to speed channel mondays now. Top gear does kick ass, i picked up an issue when i was in London last year.
EDIT: that GT episode is up, i'm hopping on the torrent, and i'll leave it up for a while...
A great book is "God's Debris" by Scott Adams. It's a thought experiment and is pretty straight foward. One of the ideas is that for god to exist he'd need a challenge, or goal, or else why exist? Therefore, god could have destroyed himself and let the universe run itself at the dawn of time...