No. I understand. You guys need to understand the real physics definitions of force, work, acceleration, and velocity.

"tq = rotational force, what are your tires doing? rotating. what is your car doing? going in a linear direction (hp). a car with 1000hp and 1lb ft of tq will take so long to get up to speed that you can go to lunch and not miss anything, however when it does get to speed it'll be a few hundred mph.
the opposite is true, a car with 1000lb ft of tq and 1 hp will have a top speed of like .5mph, but it'll get there so quick you blink and you missed it."

This is incorrect. Torque means nothing alone. I can twist a wheel in the middle of the road all day long, am I applying a force to it? Yes. Am I doing work on it. NO. Unless you apply a FORCE over a DISTANCE then it doesnt matter if I can apply enough torque to twist a building off its foundation, it still doesnt mean anything.

On top of that you are all leaving out the most important part of the equation, RPM. A car with 100hp and 100ft-lb of torque makes max power at 5252 RPM. A car with 100hp and 200ft-lb of torque makes max power at 2626 RPM. Since the engine has twice the room to rev, it will be able to utilize twice the gearing and they will be both accelerate at the same rate for the same period of time, thus, they will tie.