Wanganui expat racer Earl Bamber has added another Porsche racing trophy to his ever-expanding cabinet after the 23-year-old won the first round of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup in Spain at the weekend.
Now based in Asia, Bamber has been a sensation since he won the 2013 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia in his rookie year and made a good start to 2014 by winning the opening race of that series in Malaysia at the end of March.
Carrera Cup class consists of racing versions of the road-going Porsche GT3 car.
As well as Asia, Bamber has been racing in the Carrera Cup Deutschland in Germany for Team 75 Motorsport, having come third in the opening round and winning the second round at the start of May.
But the Supercup, with its very highly modified GT3s, is another step up entirely with a schedule which follows the Formula 1 series as support races during the F1 European rounds.