Born in
Cambridge, England, Lee began his professional speedway career in 1975 with
Boston Barracudas (on loan from parent club
King's Lynn Stars) in the second division of speedway in the United Kingdom, the
National League. In his first season, he recorded an impressive
average points score of 9.13, he also rode part-time for his parent club King's Lynn. In 1976, Lee moved full-time to
British League team King's Lynn and finished the season with an
average of 9.22, he was also the
British Junior Champion that year. At the end of the 1977 season, Lee had become the top scorer in the British League with an
average of 10.64. He also won the first of his two
British Speedway Championship titles. Lee won the
World Team Cup with England and he had also made his first appearance in a
World Championship Final. In 1979, Lee finished 3rd in the World Finals, beating
Kelly Moran,
Billy Sanders and
Ole Olsen in a run-off race to claim the bronze medal. The next year, Lee won the
World Championship in
Gothenburg for the only time, finishing ahead of King's Lynn team mate
Dave Jessup. He was also triumphant again with England in the World Team Cup. He continued to ride for King's Lynn until the end of the 1982 season. Lee opted for a change in clubs in 1983 and moved to the
Poole Pirates. He had another successful year, finishing with and
average of 10.43. At the start of the 1984 season Lee was involved in an incident that would result in him being banned from speedway for a year. In a cup match against former club King's Lynn, Lee was excluded mid-race for a starting offence in heat 5 and returned to the pits in the wrong direction, allegedly causing the other riders to take evasive action. Despite the three other riders and the home promoter giving evidence that he had posed no danger, the
Speedway Control Board fined him and banned him for 5 years, although this was later reduced on appeal. Many people at the time, including Lee himself, felt that the incident and the length of the ban had been used as a pretext to force him out of the sport. In 1983, Lee appeared in his last World Final at the
Motodrom Halbemond in
Norden,
West Germany. Installed as one of the pre-meeting favourites in what was described as the most open World Final for a number of years, Lee finished third on 11 points behind local favourite
Egon Müller (15) and Australia's
Billy Sanders (12). Lee also finished second as part of the English team at the 1983 World Team Cup Final in
Vojens, Denmark. After his ban ended, Lee returned to King's Lynn for two seasons, but he was given another fine after he didn't show up to a match in June 1986 and he seemingly quit the sport. Lee made his comeback to speedway on 16 February 1991, riding in the West End Speedway International at the
Wayville Showground in Adelaide,
South Australia where he finished fourth in the Final behind local rider
Shane Bowes,
Todd Wiltshire, and Swede Dennis Lofqvist. He then finished third behind Wiltshire and
Troy Butler in the "Mr Melbourne" meeting at the
Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, before heading back to England to take up a short-lived stint with King's Lynn. ==Personal life==