| Henry Lee Junior | |||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name: | 李萬祺 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-Hant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 18 March 1958 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | British Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Children: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Henry Lee Man-Kee Junior (; born 18 March 1958) is a Hong Kong celebrity and a racing driver.
Lee is the son of Henry Lee Hok-Ping who was a motorcycle racer and worked for Sime Darby. Lee majored in business administration and graduated from University of Southern California. He was an auto racing fan from an early age because of 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]
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.
Lee drove for WK Longman Racing in the 2000 Asian Touring Car Series, sponsored by NuLife.https://web.archive.org/web/20061101001324/http://hk.nulife.com/press_000303.htm After a season-long battle with friend and rival Charles Kwan, he won 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 competed again in the CCC, driving a Ford Focus for Changan Ford Racing.http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=22664 He won the round 5 race at the Golden Port Circuit in Beijing.https://web.archive.org/web/20070311034012/http://www.ford.com.cn/cn/ford_racing/ccc_5.htm
In 2007, Henry Lee Jr. took part in the World Touring Car Championship finale in Macau, driving a BMW 320i for Avtodom Racing.[4] He qualified 27th but lost early in the race.[5]
Lee married actress Candice Yu in 1987. They have two daughters, born in 1988 and 1991. They divorced in 2003.[6] In January 2008, Candice Yu claimed that she did not receive her alimony every month.[7]
In 2007, Lee had a son with his girlfriend Yu Yang, who is 24 years his junior. Lee and Yang married on 31 January 2008.[8]
Lee's racing mentor Ngai Chiu-Neng died of liver cancer in 1996. Later that year, Lee invited Ngai's widow, Chui Yin-Ping, to invest HK$1.8million into his company Top Pacific Communication. In 1998, Chui sold her shares back. In 2002, she filed for Lee's bankruptcy when he could not repay the money owed to her.[9] The court granted an immediate bankruptcy order to Lee on 5 September 2002.[10]