birth_place teams imagesize starts year birth_date titles wins poles article_title name retired
richmond hill , ontario p-1 racing forsythe championship racing 150 43 1998 27 july 1970 toyota atlantic series 3 4 lee bentham
 lee bentham 1999
lee bentham

lee bentham -lrb- born july 27 , 1970 -rrb- is a canadian former racing driver from richmond hill , ontario .
in 1990 and 1992 he competed in the formula k karting world championship series .
he moved to cars in the toyota atlantic series in 1995 in a successful partial-season program that managed to place bentham on the podium twice and finished 8th in points .
the following year bentham captured 7 podiums and was the series runner-up .
1997 was less successful as he only finished 5th in series points .
he also competed for forsythe racing in the indy lights series that season and won on the oval at gateway international raceway and finished 5th in points .
1998 was bentham 's breakout year as he captured two wins on his way to the toyota atlantic championship for forsythe championship racing .
1999 was his final year of top-level racing and was another year in atlantics where he won a single race and finished 6th in points .
bentham is currently a driver development coach for forsythe 's effort in the atlantic series .
