After delivering Porsche's first DTM win, Timo Bernhard's squad feels 'ready' to expand to a second car next year:
The 2015 World Endurance Championship LMP1 title-winner switched his team from ADAC GT Masters into the revamped DTM this year with a single-car entry forThe Austrian, who raced with the team in GT Masters last year, scored Porsche’s maiden DTM win at the Norisring last month after coming close to scoring a podium in the previous round at Imola.
Explaining his decision to go with one car only for this season, Bernhard said: “I wanted to concentrate everything on the one car to do it properly. “The next step for sure would be to have a second car on the grid. I think a racing team works best if you have two cars on the grid.” “Of course we have the rest of the year concentrating on this one car, but next year in terms of team structure, in terms of knowledge, I have this feeling, this I can say.
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