[1] Tim Lee-Davey was a member of the British Kart Team and was the Dunlop Star of Tomorrow Formula Ford Champion in 1980 driving the ex-James Weaver Tiga FF79 in his first full year of motor racing.
With this car, partnered by Neil Crang, Tim won the famous Gold Cup at Oulton Park by 4 laps and was a regular front runner.
The pair were joined by Tony Lanfranchi for that year's Le Mans 24 Hours but were unclassified (although 7th in the C2 class) completing 226 laps after car problems.
In 1988 Lee-Davey's latest Tiga having been destroyed by fire at Brno, Team Davey obtained a new Porsche 962 and continued competing in the World Sports Prototype Championship.
Tim's father Lionel (Lee) Davey who was a successful businessman, founding Lee-Davey Caravans based in Harrietsham, Kent, strongly opposed his son's motor racing career and consistently refused any financial support considering it "the end of a promising law career and the start of a tenuous motor racing existence".