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The trick with minimum weight is that you build the car as light as you can, within some amount of reason, because that will make it more competitive. Sure, you'll have to ballast it back up, but you have more flexibility then in where you put the weight.
I do also think that the LMP1s could/should be lighter than 900kg, especially wih just the proposed 520hp. For reference, the 1957 Maserati 450S (Tipo 54) with the enlarged 5.7-litre V8 (as opposed to the standard 4.5-litre unit) weighed ~790kg and produced 526hp. Meanwhile, something like the Maserati Tipo 61 "Birdcage" with 275hp was 525-600kg.
More recently, for much of the GTP era, the cars were 750-820kg, with 650-900hp (Ford Probe GTP at the low end of power with the Corvette GTP and Buick Hawk GTP at the upper end).
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