His seven-year-old son Mackenzie will be right by dad's side for all but one of the rounds, while his wife Niki intends to bring daughter Shelby, 4, to at least half of the events.
Lee has fallen in love with the sport of drifting - which involves track racing with the car in opposite lock, while controlling the speed going into corners, and hitting specified clipping marks to gain points.
It's an expensive passion that can mount up to the tens of thousands of dollars - last year Lee ran the same set of front tyres on his car for the entire series, but needed 106 for the rear set.
He will be racing on Evergreen Tyres this campaign and has also secured sponsorship from Famous Stars and Straps, the American-based clothing company founded by Travis Barker, the drummer from rock band blink-182.
Competition will be tough as Lee is expecting at least 40 cars at every round.
"It's pretty much sold out [on entries]. They can't take any more."
Other rounds are next month, January, February, April and May.
His team's connections run stronger than just family in Wanganui as Lee found kindred spirits in Palmerston North's Daniel Tupara as his team manager and Martinborough's Mike Sleyer, who is the design brain behind their organisation.
All three men are old boys of the former St Augustine's College.
"It's very much the team's based around Wanganui, hard out," said Lee.
The first round begins today at Hampton Downs.
