It turns out that our discussion about Bernhard choosing between Audi and Porsche is completely hypothetical. Porsche already announced their driver lineup for 2012 when they announced that the development of the hybrid 911 will continue:
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Like in previous years, Porsche supports its most successful customer teams in 2012 with works drivers. The line up of pilots stays the same with Jörg Bergmeister, Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas, Wolf Henzler, Marco Holzer, Marc Lieb, Richard Lietz, Patrick Long and Patrick Pilet. "To win races you have to have the right race drivers. And there's no doubt that we have them," stated Matthias Müller, Chairman of the Executive Board at Porsche AG.
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I think that (almost) solves the mystery of Audi's WEC lineup. My guess is on Kristensen-McNish and Lotterer-Treluyer.