Okay listen up, your not getting what I am saying! I'm NOT saying it will get 30mpg all the time no matter how you drive it, that's just rediculous to think that lol. I am saying if you are light on the gas (no boosting) or just cruising the freeway, you can easily get 30mpg or even more with a well tuned setup. The second you start boosting and doing a bunch of 3rd, 4th, and 5th gear rippers? Your mileage goes out the window and you won't get close to 30mpg. Do you get it now?
Example you live 300 miles from the drag strip. You can fill up with pump gas and cruise on the freeway the whole way there on one tank of gas (10 gallon), then once your there, you can fill it up with race gas and run crazy times and put down insane horsepower. Obviously in this case you will need an ECU that will allow you to switch from a pump gas tune to a race gas tune. That's what I mean when I say you can get 30mpg and still be able to make a shit ton of horsepower.
As far as my car goes, here's my best drag radial time (13.4 @ 105mph) on 9psi (about 210whp). Like I said I only made 5 passes and didn't have that great of a 60ft, so with more seat time and boost (12-14psi), a 12.9 pass is easily possible on street tires...
http://users.adelphia.net/~pshickey/images/TimeSlip2.JPG Like I said find me a place to host my videos and I will show you my car running a consistant 13.2 @ 101mph on 9psi with not so great traction. It's kinda funny your questioning my times at all, there are faster cars with this kind of horsepower you know (a lite vehicle and traction is everything).
Oh and back to a more serious convo, check this video out, turbo GSR hatch racing at watkins glen (Jeff Evans's car), looks like he is passing just about everybody (RWD and AWD cars) and I even think I saw him passing a nissan! Before you say it, I know he is probably just a better driver and I'm not saying FWD hatches are better for road racing than a real sports cars by any means, but with the right setup it is possible to have a fun quick Honda that handles decently well on a road race track. Oh and the instructor wouldn't let him shift past 6500rpms, since he was scared, so he was never able to show the cars full potential. He did reach speeds up to 130mph by the end of the day though. Obviously you can tell it wasn't setup with race suspension or brakes from the last part of the video lol. Still pretty cool video...
http://www.evans-tuning.com/videos/Jeffs_Hatch.wmv