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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.
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.
Remember, fendered cars are generally less draggy than open-wheelers, and F1 cars are about the worst drag producers on Earth! At high speed, if you lift off the gas (so not even braking at all), you experience more than 1G of deceleration. Basically, just lifting off the gas, at speed, in an F1 car, delivers more deceleration force than even the most exotic supercars can deliver when you're full on the brakes!
To get this back more on topic, here's a target value to keep in mind. I have the F1 map of Fuji from the FIA site. The top speed for the front straight listed is 190-mph (306km/h).
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