Lee McKenzie

Lee McKenzie (born December 1, 1977 in Ayr, Scotland) is a presenter for Sky Sports and Sky Sports News. She is the daughter of Bob McKenzie, the well known Sports and motorsport journalist.

Working mainly in motor sport and rugby, she has presented for ITV and also launched the Horse Racing channel At the Races. Lee has also presented Lookaround for Border Television, and covered many high profile stories including the Lockerbie Trial. Lee has been a journalist since she was 15 years old. In 2007 Lee won the Jim Clark Memorial Award for contributions to motorsport. She competed in several rounds of the World Rally Championship in 2004 and the Norwegian Mountain rally in 2005.

She has hosted several programmes and is about to embark on a third year of presenting Sky Sports A1 Grand Prix coverage as well as the world feed coverage.

A lifelong motor sports and “any sports” fan, Lee has presented several programmes on ITV, Channel 4 as well as Sky Sports, including the ‘live’ Sunday afternoon show Speed Sunday and the British Super Bike Championship.

She competes as an international co-driver in the World Rally Championship. She started after a challenge by ITV to train and become a world rally championship co-driver in just 3 months and saw her qualifying for an International licence, right through until she won her class at Wales Rally GB. Since then she has competed in the Norwegian Rally Championship, arguably the toughest national championship in the world, for the X-Power MG ZR .

Last year Lee travelled over 150,000 miles five times round the world covering both F1 and A1GP.

She has covered most major sports events in her time from the Rugby World Cup to Wimbledon and the Derby, from Netball, Grand Prix and Football. She’s presented for Attheraces, covered Horse Racing for Sky Sports, has anchored the 6 o’clock news. She covered many big news stories including the Lockerbie trial. She has recently starred in a TV advert for Nokia, presents award ceremonies including F1 and other events. She presented for Sony Playstation, presented the F1 Regent Street display in front of 300,000 people and was asked by Nigel Mansell and Carl Fogarty to host the launch of their magazine for whom she was the on-track editor and columnist.

Lee also has a company looking after some of the top drivers, from GP2 to World Rally.

Source

*http://www.leemckenzie.tv

*http://www.leemckenzienetwork.com

*http://www.a1gp.com

*http://www.virginmedia.com/sport/motorsport/formula1/features/lee-mckenzie.php