what plant have you, 3.0 and down no launch control.
For me in my 3.0 I always run ,sorry ran, in sports and manual shift, but use kick down whenever you need to ensure proper gear selection and change but dont forget to shift up lol. in manual it will stay redline until you pull the paddles. Another way is to push sports and use kick down or just kick down as your only talking one or 2 gear changes.
In sports auto it keeps the revs up so you cant really run insports auto unless you fancy running in 5th all the time