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Originally Posted by Purist
Deggis and Greg, I can tell you this much right off. The F1 cars at Monza were topping out at 200-203-mph on their own. Even with DRS activated, they couldn't go beyond 210-mph.
Among those four longest stretches at Le Mans, the slowest of those, for a factory LMP1, is 210-mph. The other three see speeds of 212-216-mph.
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I already said Sarthe is invalid as an comparison, because obviously F1 car doesn't have official data from there. Lenghts of the straights might be same, but the track still isn't the same and sections leading to those straights are not same.
You seem to conveniently forget that post-2011 LMP1s do not have achieve that high speeds.
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LMP1s do not have DRS, and the energy required to attain a given speed goes up with the square of the velocity. Current F1 cars are supposed to be making ~800-hp, while current LMP1s are supposed to be making ~600-hp.
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How is this relevant at all? Are we talking about real life, current F1 cars or not?
You will find F1 top speeds from
here (select race > qual > speed trap) and you will also find top speeds for ILMC and WEC
here.
What you will not find though are higher top speeds for LMP1. There seems to be a similar 10-20 km/h gap across the circuits.