#2017 ELK GROVE HONDA DRIVERS#
He left the series holding second position in the Drivers Championship and was seventh overall at the end of the season. With the support of Team 75 Bernhard, Bamber competed in ten out of eighteen rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany with two wins, five podiums and three fastest laps. He dominated the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia season on his way to retaining the title as he won eight out of the ten races that he competed in despite missing two races in Zhuhai due to his concurrent commitments in Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Germany.
#2017 ELK GROVE HONDA DRIVER#
After seven of the ten races, the FACH Auto Tech driver had already won the rookie classification. After ten rounds in the Supercup, Bamber won the drivers championship with 155 points, ahead of Kuba Giermaziak on 132 points, becoming the first New Zealander to win the Porsche Supercup title and the first rookie to do so. Bamber racing at the Sebring International Raceway during the 2014 GT America Series.īamber raced with FACH Auto Tech in the Porsche Supercup alongside Porsche Carrera Cups of Germany and Asia with Team 75 Bernhard and LKM Racing, respectively. 2014 The Porsche 997 GT3-R Cup of Earl Bamber, Ben Barker and Stephen Grove at the 2014 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour.
He received funding of 200,000 Euros for his 2014 Porsche Supercup season campaign the following season. Part of the selection process included the simulation of a qualifying session as well as an entire race. Porsche Carrera Cup Asia nominated Bamber for the Porsche Motorsport International Cup Scholarship shootout in Oschersleben, Germany, where he beat seven other top pilots from Porsche one-make cups series around the world. Bamber's inaugural sportscar racing season ended with victory in the Carrera Cup Asia race at the 60th Macau Grand Prix meeting, defeating nine-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb in the process. He was subsequently selected to race in three Porsche Supercup meetings. Bamber was also successful in endurance racing, winning the Bathurst 12 Hour (Class B) with Grove Racing, alongside team owner and Carrera Cup Australia regular Stephen Grove and eventual Supercup rival Ben Barker. He battled all season with Martin Ragginger but eventually won the drivers championship. In 2013, Bamber made his first appearance in Porsche's one make series in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia with Malaysian team, Nexus Racing. In 2010 he repeated his 2008 success and was again crowned runner-up in the New Zealand Toyota Racing Series. He also stood on the podium in GP2 Asia, at the age of 19. Bamber contested several rounds of the international A1 Grand Prix series for the New Zealand team in 2009, finishing on the podium three times. In 2008 he won two vice-championship trophies – in Formula Renault V6 Asia and Toyota Racing Series New Zealand. He achieved pole positions, fastest laps and podium results in Formula Renault V6 and Australian Formula 3, despite a tight budget. At 15 he switched to the New Zealand Formula Ford Championship before competing in Asia two years later where he won the Asian Formula BMW title. Racing career Open-wheel racing Bamber competing for A1 Team New Zealand at the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africaīamber progressed through karts and single seater series and was ranked sixth highest future star in the world by the internationally recognised website in 2008. Later that year, he secured a podium at the Rotax Max category's annual Grand Final in Portugal after dominating the Junior class in the 2004 Rotax Max Challenge of New Zealand. Bamber began in kart racing and won his first title aged 12, at the North Island Sprint Championships (Junior 100cc Yamaha Restricted), and his first national title at the 2004 Sprint Kart Championship meeting in Auckland. He attended Wanganui Collegiate School along with his younger brother, William. The latter trio was also joint winner of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship for Drivers.Įarl Bamber was born in Whanganui, New Zealand, to Paul and Maureen Bamber (née Johnson), and lived on a farm where he learned to drive in the small settlement of Jerusalem on the Whanganui River. He has also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, having won in 2015 with Nico Hülkenberg and Nick Tandy and 2017 with Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley. He is the 2014 Porsche Supercup and double Porsche Carrera Cup Asia champion.
#2017 ELK GROVE HONDA PROFESSIONAL#
Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Drivers ChampionshipĮarl Anderson Bamber (born 9 July 1990) is a professional racing driver from New Zealand, currently competing as a factory driver for Porsche Motorsport in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM class. GT Le Mans: 12 (7 podiums), GT Daytona: 2 (0 podium)Ģnd (GTLM) at the 2014 Petit Le Mans, 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, Continental Tire Road Race Showcase and Oak Tree Grand Prix in 2015
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