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Henry Lee Junior

Henry Lee Junior

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Henry Lee Man-Kee Junior (Chinese: 李萬祺; born 18 March 1958) is a Hong Kong celebrity and a racing driver.

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Early life

Lee is the son of Henry Lee Hok-Ping who was a motorcycle racer and worked for Sime Darby. Lee Jr. majored in Business Administration and graduated from University of Southern California. He was an auto racing fan since young due to his father's influence. He began racing karts in 1986 and competed in the Guia Race of Macau for the first time in 1988.[1]

Racing career

Henry Lee Junior racing his BMW at Zhuhai in 1994.

In 1999, Lee drove a Volvo S40 for Ghiasport, sponsored by Ericsson.

Lee declared bankruptcy in 2001 after suffering losses during the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 -1999. Afterwards, all his racing activities are sponsored.

Henry Lee Jr drove for WK Longman Racing in the 2000 Asian Touring Car Series, sponsored by NuLife . After a season long battle with friend and rival Charles Kwan, he took the championship after finishing second overall in the Guia Race of Macau.[2]

He raced again in the 2002 Hong Kong Touring Car Championship for GR Asia. He drove a Ford Focus ST170 which was sponsored by Valvoline and won the championship.[3]

In 2005 he drove a Honda Accord for Ghiasport in the China Circuit Championship (CCC).

He was competing again in the CCC, driving a Ford Focus for Changan Ford Racing. He won the round 5 race at the Golden Port Circuit in Beijing.

Henry Lee Junior driving his BMW320i in the Macau Guia in 2007.

In 2007, Henry Lee Junior took part in the World Touring Car Championship finale in Macau, driving a BMW 320i for Avtodom Racing.[4] He qualified 27th [5] but crashed out on lap 1 in race 1.

2018 Henry Lee Junior at Mini Challenge Asia press conference.
2018 Henry Lee Junior's Mini Challenge Asia race car.

Personal life

Lee married actress Candice Yu in 1987. They have two daughters from their marriage. Their first daughter was born in 1988 and the second daughter in 1991. Candice Yu admitted the couple have been divorced for two months in April 2003 after 16 years of marriage.[6] In January 2008, Candice Yu claimed that she did not receive her alimony every month.[7]

On 31 January 2008, near the age of 50, Henry Lee Junior remarried after his 26-year-old girlfriend Yu Yang had already given birth to a son for him in 2007.[8]

Bankruptcy

Ngai Chiu-Neng was Henry Lee Junior's master in race driving, he died of liver cancer in 1996. That year, Lee invited Chui Yin-Ping, widow of Ngai Chiu-Neng, to invest HK$1.8million into his company Top Pacific Communication in 1996. But in 1998 Chui sold her shares back. In 2002, she filed for Henry Lee Junior's bankruptcy when Lee could not repay the money owed to her.[9] The court granted an immediate bankruptcy order to Henry Lee Junior on 5 September 2002.[6][10]


References

  1. 車癡比賽屢奪大獎 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Apple Daily. 26 April 2003.
  2. (in Chinese)李萬祺與福特 Focus戰車 努力作戰 Apple Daily. 20 September 2002.
  3. 2007 Macau Guia entry list 2007 Macau Guia entry list
  4. "Macau Grandprix -". www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo. Archived from the original on 2008-03-30.
  5. (in Chinese)50歲李萬祺奉子成婚 余安安冷對前夫再娶 Apple Daily. 16 February 2008.
  6. (in Chinese)欠 債 100 萬 李 萬 祺 被 判 即 時 破 產 "Sing Tao Daily. 6 September 2002.

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