Lee McKenzie is again to steer Channel 4's protection of the British Grand Prix alongside Steve Jones and David Coulthard.
Lee is enthusiastic about motorsports, even competing in a couple of codecs herself, and She started her System 1 reporting profession in 2009, when she appeared as a pit lane reporter when the BBC broadcast protection. and would fill in for presenter Jake Humphrys when he was not obtainable.
© Clive MasonWhen Channel 4 acquired the rights to broadcast the sport, Lee did the identical and He has been presenting for the channel since 2016 and has incessantly led protection of Grand Prix weekends in recent times,
Nonetheless, it was his well-known father who received him within the sport, when he was referred to as in on the final minute to report on the 1991 Mexican Grand Prix.
© Mark ThompsonLee's father, Bob McKenzie, is a sports activities author who every day Categorical Between 1979 and 2014Bob was referred to as in to write down for the programme when the standard reporter was in poor health and Lee took up the job, taking care of her father, and on the age of 15 she started writing for her native newspaper, the Ayrshire Publish.
He remembered Sunday Post“It was an important base. I'd go to no matter sport was on on a Saturday – often rugby – and on Monday morning I'd take the time off from college to enter the workplace and write rugby studies and columns on horse using. I didn't consider doing the rest.”
© Mark ThompsonThe star even joked that she used to go to System 1 races along with her dad, saying: “My father was a Fleet Road journalist and I used to be a hard child who would go to all of the sporting occasions. So by the point I used to be 12 I had already been to a number of F1 races.”
Commenting on his father's profession Motorsport broadcastingLee stated: “I used to go to System 1 races once I was ten, I do know Bernie [Eccleston] My dad since I used to be just a little child [Ayrton] Attended Senna's funeral, and wrote books on Damon and his companions. [Hill] and Nigel [Mansell]“I’ve been surrounded by all of it my life in several sports activities, not simply motorsport.”
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Lee has had a profitable broadcasting profession and started her job at Borders TV the place she coated main information occasions together with the opening of the Scottish Parliament and the Lockerbie bombing trial.
© InstagramIt’s not simply System 1 the place Lee has made a reputation for herself, although, because the Scottish-born journalist has additionally introduced protection of horse racing, Six Nations rugby, Wimbledon and the Olympic and Paralympic Video games.
