28 Facts About Earl Bamber

Earl Bamber is a factory driver for Corvette Racing, having previously driven in a factory capacity for Porsche.

Earl Bamber became overall champion of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship alongside the latter trio.

Earl Bamber won the IMSA SportsCar Championship in the GTLM class in 2019, as well as the Nurburgring 24 Hours in 2023.

Earl Bamber was born in Whanganui, New Zealand, to Paul and Maureen Bamber, and lived on a farm where he learned to drive in the small settlement of Jerusalem on the Whanganui River.

Earl Bamber attended Wanganui Collegiate School along with his younger brother, William.

Earl Bamber began in kart racing and won his first title aged 12, at the North Island Sprint Championships, and his first national title at the 2004 Sprint Kart Championship meeting in Auckland.

Earl Bamber progressed through karts and single seater series and was ranked sixth highest future star in the world by the internationally recognised website driverdb.

Earl Bamber achieved pole positions, fastest laps and podium results in Formula Renault V6 and Australian Formula 3, despite a tight budget.

Earl Bamber contested several rounds of the international A1 Grand Prix series for the New Zealand team in 2009, finishing on the podium three times.

Earl Bamber stood on the podium in GP2 Asia, at the age of 19.

In 2013, Earl Bamber made his first appearance in Porsche's one make series in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia with Malaysian team, Nexus Racing.

Earl Bamber battled all season with Martin Ragginger but eventually won the drivers championship.

Earl Bamber was successful in endurance racing, winning the Bathurst 12 Hour with Grove Racing, alongside team owner and Carrera Cup Australia regular Stephen Grove and eventual Supercup rival Ben Barker.

Earl Bamber was selected to race in three Porsche Supercup meetings.

Earl Bamber received funding of 200,000 Euros for his 2014 Porsche Supercup season campaign the following season.

Earl Bamber 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.

Earl Bamber 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.

Earl Bamber left the series holding second position in the Drivers Championship and was seventh overall at the end of the season.

Earl Bamber replaced the injured Richard Lietz in the Porsche 911 RSR at the Petit Le Mans in the United SportsCar Championship, joining Porsche works drivers Patrick Long and Michael Christensen.

Earl Bamber bettered the previous lap record by more than a full second.

Earl Bamber made a guest appearance in the FIA World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of Nurburgring, filling in for Klaus Bachler in the No 88 Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR.

In 2016, Earl Bamber continues to pilot the 911 RSR for Porsche North America and Porsche Motorsport in the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the World Endurance Championship, respectively.

Earl Bamber was the highest placed Kiwi driver at the 54th running of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona when his Porsche 911 RSR team came home third in the GTLM class and placed ninth overall.

Earl Bamber made a successful return at the Bathurst 12 Hour with a 2nd Class B victory for Grove Motorsport in as many races at the endurance classic in Mount Panorama, Australia alongside team owner Stephen Grove and V8 Supercars driver Scott McLaughlin.

On 3 December 2016, Earl Bamber was confirmed as a member of the Porsche LMP1 team with Nick Tandy and Andre Lotterer to contest 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Earl Bamber started 29th in the UNOH 188 but finished 33rd after hitting a kerb on the backstretch chicane, which caused his car to go airborne.

Earl Bamber acknowledges his home country with a silver fern design on the sides of his Stilo ST5 helmets, a quasi-national emblem used for various official symbols, including the Coat of arms of New Zealand and the New Zealand one dollar coin.

Earl Bamber has the number 19 painted on the back of one of his helmets, the same number as on his Porsche 919 Hybrid.