1. Lee McKenzie was born on 1 December 1977 and is a journalist and presenter who is a reporter and deputy presenter for Channel 4's F1 coverage and the main presenter of the W Series and Channel 4 Rugby.
31 Facts About Lee McKenzie
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Lee McKenzie has worked as a presenter for the BBC's F1 coverage, Sky Sports and Sky Sports News.
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Lee McKenzie has presented for ITV, and launched the horse racing channel At the Races.
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Lee McKenzie has presented Lookaround for Border Television, and covered many high-profile stories including the Lockerbie Trial.
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Lee McKenzie has been a journalist since she was 15 years old.
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In 2007, Lee McKenzie won the Jim Clark Memorial Award for contributions to motorsport.
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Lee McKenzie competed in several rounds of the World Rally Championship in 2004, and the Norwegian Mountain rally in 2005.
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Lee McKenzie has hosted several programmes, including three seasons of Sky Sports' A1 Grand Prix coverage, as well as the world feed coverage.
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Lee McKenzie has covered most major sports events from the Rugby World Cup to Wimbledon and the Derby, from Netball, Grand Prix and Football.
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Lee McKenzie has presented for At the Races, covering horse racing for Sky Sports, and presenting the 6 o'clock news.
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Lee McKenzie covered many big news stories including the Lockerbie trial.
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Lee McKenzie starred in a TV advert for Nokia, presenting award ceremonies including Formula One and other events.
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Lee McKenzie presented for the Sony PlayStation, 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.
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From 2009 to 2015, Lee McKenzie was a pit lane reporter on the BBC's Formula One Coverage.
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Lee McKenzie was the main presenter of Inside F1 for BBC News and McKenzie was the lead presenter for the BBC's F1 programme at the Japanese Grand Prix weekend in October 2010 whilst Jake Humphrey presented the Commonwealth Games and presented the Canadian, German and Hungarian Grands Prix in 2012 whilst Jake Humphrey was presenting Euro 2012 and the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Lee McKenzie was reported to be on the BBC's shortlist of possible anchors to replace departing host Jake Humphrey for their F1 coverage across the 2013 season.
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Lee McKenzie started as a presenter on BBC Inspire in April 2014.
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Since 2021, in a departure from normal practice, Lee McKenzie regularly conducts immediate post-match interviews with winning players in front of the crowd on Centre Court at Wimbledon - rather than off-court under the Royal Box.
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Lee McKenzie joined co-hosts Jason Plato and David Vitty in a debate about the future of motorsport and whether Formula E would ever be as popular as F1.
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On 8 March 2016, it was announced that Lee McKenzie would be joining Channel 4's F1 coverage following BBC's decision to no longer broadcast live F1 on TV.
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Lee McKenzie continues to report on races in the same role she used to have on the BBC and presents F1 Meets.
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Lee McKenzie was Channel 4's lead presenter for the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix and 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
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Lee McKenzie was announced as the channel's main anchor and reporter for the Paralympics Breakfast show for Rio.
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Lee McKenzie missed the Austrian, British and Hungarian GP in 2017 as she was part of Channel's 4 UEFA Women's Euro 2017 and 2017 World Para Athletics Championships presenting teams.
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Lee McKenzie presented highlights from the winter Paralympic games from London as well as being one of the main presenters of the Winter Paralympics Today and Winter Paralympics Highlights.
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In 2018 Lee McKenzie co-presented the Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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Lee McKenzie became Channel 4's main presenter for Rugby Union and Wales mid-year Internationals, European Rugby Champions Cup For the 2021 Paralympics it was announced McKenzie would be part of Channel 4's small on site team as reporter due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Lee McKenzie competes as an international co-driver in the World Rally Championship.
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Lee McKenzie started after a challenge by ITV to train and become a World Rally Championship co-driver in just three months, and saw her qualifying for an international licence, right through until she won her class at 2004 Wales Rally GB.
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Since then Lee McKenzie has competed in the Norwegian Rally Championship for the X-Power MG ZR.
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Lee McKenzie owns and runs a driver management company that looks after drivers from GP2 to World Rally.