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Full throttle is full throttle - meaning pushing the throttle down to its maximum travel. I have a manual transmission equipped FR-S, but if the throttle pedal on your car works like it does in most other cars with automatic transmissions, there’s a slight detent at the end of the normal travel that you must press through to get to full throttle. Typically, the detent activates a switch used by the ECU or transmission control unit to initiate a downshift - someone with more experience with an automatic equipped FR-S/BRZ/86 can jump in and correct me if I’m wrong.
I have no idea how quickly you’ll be traveling at the end of second gear, but I’ve sometimes done my data logging on a lightly traveled highway during off hours where I can judge the gap to the next car behind me (ideally, when there is no one even viable in my rear view mirror), slowed down to about 1,000rpm, initiated the data logging software, and then running through whatever gear I’m told to data log in. You may end up speeding, but probably not by much. In your car, I assume you’ll need to be in manual mode to lock the transmisssion into second gear, and then you should be able to do three quick successive runs from 1,000rpm to redline in the same data log.
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