The 24-year-old has made the most of every opportunity he's been handed in motorsport, getting on to the podium in every series he's raced in including karting, Formula BMW Asia, Formula Masters, Formula V6 Asia, A1GP, Toyota Racing Series, and he is a New Zealand Grand Prix winner.
Bamber hails from Wanganui and had his sights set on single-seaters and the early part of his career was focused on that goal. Grabbing the opportunity to race Porsche GT3 Cup cars in Asia suddenly saw the Kiwi become the man to beat in the German-made tin top and he hasn't looked back.
The manufacturer must have seen something and thought Bamber had what it takes to race their GT cars when he awarded the 2014 Porsche International Motorsport Cup Scholarship.
"I don't know what it is but ever since I started driving the Porsche I've been fast. It's a beautiful car to drive and the engine is in the right place - in the rear. People will be surprised but these cars are really just like single-seaters.
"All the cars are really, really identical and allow the good, quick drivers to shine through and not those who have the biggest budget. You do, though, have to have a fair amount of finesse with them and you have to continue to develop your driving skills.
"The biggest influence in this category as to how well the car goes is the guy behind the wheel. Changing things on the car doesn't really affect it that much, it's more the driver who has the biggest say in how it goes," said Bamber.
Those sentiments are all well and good, but to be able to be in the top two in three different championships in three different cars is no mean feat, especially when each series has its own team of mechanics and engineers to fettle the cars.
"It's great that with all the teams we can talk back through the programmes we have and how to improve on them. Also, working with three different teams I get three times as many different ideas and it gives us more options, which can only make us stronger.
"It's like being able to pool all the information together and work out that there might be something we learned in Germany that will make the Supercup car better, or the Asia car faster," said Bamber.
While the Kiwi is pushing the envelope in all three championships, his fellow competitors must be finding it a bit daunting the amount of seat time Bamber's getting as well as the wealth of technical data he's collecting inside his head.
"It's a tough racing world out there and we just have to keep pushing. I think Porsche is quite happy with how I'm going and it's quite neat for them to see how it's all going as a Porsche scholarship driver.
"It's hard to tell exactly what they are thinking but they've got to be pleased a scholarship winner is having so much success in one season. However, I'll just have to wait and see what they say at the end of the season," he said.
Bamber is more than happy racing sports cars now he's got the hang of it and doesn't really have any aspirations to get back into single-seaters. Being a realist, he reckons he has a better chance to forge a career in sports cars where he says the racing is closer, better, the battles are great and it's a lot less political than the single-seater world.
