Marchy Lee | |
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Marchy Lee preparing to race in the Formula Asia V6 by Renault race
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Nationality | Hongkonger |
Born | 2 September 1976 |
Audi R8 LMS Cup career | |
Debut season | 2012 |
Current team | Audi Ultra |
Car no. | 1 |
Starts | 12 |
Wins | 3 |
Poles | 4 |
Best finish | 1st in 2012 |
Previous series | |
2011 2010 |
World Touring Car Championship Porsche Carrera Cup Asia |
Championship titles | |
2012 2004 |
Audi R8 LMS Cup Formula BMW Asia |
Marchy Lee Ying-Kin (Traditional Chinese: 李英健) is a racing driver from Hong Kong. Born in 1976 in Hong Kong, Marchy started his racing career at just 9 years old and has become one of the top race car drivers in Hong Kong.
He is the first Formula 3 driver from Hong Kong and has competed in the Macau Grand Prix.
Marchy currently resides in Hong Kong with his wife and their two daughters.
Marchy was born on 2 September 1976 in Hong Kong. Marchy's father was also a racing driver and he has been karting at a young age. When the Zhuhai International Circuit was built in 1996, he enrolled in the inaugural China Formula Campus Championship. Upon winning the championship, he received a scholarship to join the La Filière racing school in Le Mans, France to continue his development.
He spent 3 years in France, progressing from Formula Campus to French Formula 3, achieving respectable results.
But his funding ran out and he returned to Asia afterwards, competing in some Asian and Australian F3 races. He won 2 Asian Formula 3 races at Sepang and finished 7th in the Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix.
In August 2003, driving a Dallara F301 Renault, he took pole position in the Australian Formula 3 race at Philip Island in treachrous conditions.
Later that year he won two Formula BMW Asia races in Beijing and finished 2nd to Hideaki Nakao in the Formula Renault race in Macau. He also took part in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia race and finished fifth, despite a problem with the gas pedal, behind Alex Yoong, Charles Kwan, Matthew Marsh and Nigel Albon.