(Mon 21 May 07)

Motorsport television present Lee McKenzie is this year's Jim Clark Award winner.

The Award, named after the 1963 and 1965 F1 World Champion, has been in the gift of the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers for 37 years. In the words of ASMW President Stephen Park (pictured above with McKenzie), "The Jim Clark Award has always been about acknowledging the success of Scots who work in various aspects of the automotive industry and awarding our accolade to Lee McKenzie highlights this.

"It's usually the drivers who are crowned in glory and have celebrity status but if it wasn't for the TV presenters we probably wouldn't be aware of their on-track achievements. The personable presenting style of people like Lee is what makes viewers switch on each week and tune in to motorsport programmes and the ASMW wish her every success for the future."

McKenzie has travelled 300,000 miles in the past 18 months, attending F1, A1GP, GP2, DTM and Porsche Supercup events, among many others. She is also involved in driver management, and recently embarked on a new venture as a rally navigator. In this last activity she has been advised by Robert Reid, the World Rally Championship-winning co-driver of the late Richard Burns, and himself a former winner of the Jim Clark Award.

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