FYI, the "Someone" who hit the kill switch was one of the Lotus mechanics. The smoke in the cockpit was so thick that Bouchut was unable to find the kill switch, plus there was fuel spraying into the cockpit; a "jet of flame" or something similar if I remember correctly.

Sounds like oil line, followed by fuel lines; there was gas everywhere as the Rebellion and fire-crew went to put out the flames.

I'm actually kinda curious about downforce numbers between an LMP1 and an F1 car to calculate "downforce per lb of car in X spec"

I believe the F1 qualifying was in the wet which greatly reduced the lap ties in comparison to LMP1.

I'm probably going to crunch some sector time comparisons, qualifying comparisons rather than race comparisons however. Will have something like that later...

Here's a comparison: