I don't know why people like the stick shift so much. Ask anyone at the track which transmission shifts the most repeatable and quickly and they all say that you cannot beat an automatic for hitting your dialed in time. Sure, a stick is fun to play around with but it has a human factor on the other end of it that makes mistakes, misses shifts and over-revs engines at times. Just admit you are human and you want predictability at the track and get a well built automatic.