Nationality Hong Kong Role Racing driver Name Henry Junior | Years active 2007 Related to Spouse Candice Yu (m. 1987–2003) | |
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Born March 18, 1958 (age 66)
Hong Kong ( 1958-03-18 ) Former teams Ghiasport, WK Longman Racing, Changan Ford Racing 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship 2000 Asian Touring Car Series People also search for Candice Yu, Chow Yun-fat, Lee Man Hin, Lee Man Ki | ||
Henry Lee Man-Kee Junior (Chinese: 李萬祺, pinyin: Li Wanqi) 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.
Racing career
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 [1]. 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.
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.
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.[2] He won the round 5 race at the Golden Port Circuit in Beijing.[3]
In 2007, Henry Lee Junior took part in the World Touring Car Championship finale in Macau, driving a BMW 320i for Avtodom Racing. He qualified 27th but crashed out on lap 1 in race 1.
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. In January 2008, Candice Yu claimed that she did not receive her alimony every month.
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.
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. The court granted an immediate bankruptcy order to Henry Lee Junior on 5 September 2002.