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Teddy Yip (businessman)

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as team mate but the team was chronically underfunded and using a very poorly engineered DN11 chassis. After a few races Yip took over ownership from founder Don Nichols and introduced a DN12 chassis which also proved a failure. After both cars failed to qualify for the
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Yip reduced his involvement in motor racing sponsorship in the late 1980s and finally sold his share of his company in Macau to his brother-in-law. His son
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Teddy Yip died at the age of 96 in 2003. News of his death and the subsequent funeral received extensive coverage in television, radio and print media in
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In 1979, Yip helped to fund Ensign but the team did not score any points. At the end of 1978 and through 1979 Yip also funded a British F1 programme with
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in June Yip closed down the Shadow team. Yip rethought his involvement in racing and ended most of his other activities in order to concentrate on F1.
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at Silverstone, a non-championship race that was held in extremely wet conditions that year. Rosberg qualified for only one Grand Prix that year, in
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In January 2019, Yip's adopted son, Willy, died in a Hong Kong hospital from injuries he had received in a school bus crash in the previous month.
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in the 1940s and began to build up his business empire which included travel agencies, hotels, casinos and trading companies.
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operations and many other leisure activities in Macau, including lotteries, ferries and hotels. Teddy Yip established the
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rules in 1983. The result was a huge success and Theodore Racing won the event many times, notably with
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For many years, Yip ran a team at the Macau Grand Prix and was behind the switch from
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Yip started racing cars for fun in the 1950s. In 1974 Yip sponsored Australian driver
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transformed Macau into a major tourist destination. Yip was the force behind the
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who finished runner up in the series in 1979. His British F1 programme also ran
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revived the Theodore Racing brand in various single seater racing formulae.
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Jap Tek Lie is the romanization of Chinese that was used in Indonesia
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drove the car, but at the end of that season the team shut down.
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Yip then established Theodore Racing Ltd. and recruited designer
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After a relatively unsuccessful year in 1977, Yip commissioned
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team managed by Sid Taylor and in Formula One with Team
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in Wolf WR4 to a famous win at Brands Hatch in 1980.
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in the US Formula 5000 series, also establishing his
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At that time Indonesia was the 147: 713:Indonesian emigrants to the Netherlands 359:took the car to a shock victory at the 218:Yip spoke many languages including six 650: 575: 555: 718:Indonesian people of Chinese descent 13: 229:, it being his native tongue, and 14: 739: 668:20th-century Dutch businesspeople 343:to build him a Formula One car. 284:) and their two other partners ( 693:Dutch people of Chinese descent 303: 626: 600: 549: 477: 361:1978 BRDC International Trophy 167:Early life and business career 137: 128: 1: 678:Businesspeople in real estate 490: 728:People from Meixian District 556:Glick, Shav (18 July 2003). 470: 16:Indonesian-Dutch businessman 7: 708:Indonesian chief executives 703:Formula One team principals 268:with a monopoly to run all 10: 744: 374:WR3, WR4 and WR6 cars for 347:failed to qualify in both 18: 462: 280:(the brother of his wife 110: 92: 58: 45: 38: 450: 698:Formula One team owners 688:Dutch motorsport people 324:and for 1976 supported 175:of Hakka ancestry from 159:in the 1970s. 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Medan
Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
Hong Kong
Chinese
pinyin
Jyutping
Formula One
Theodore Racing
polyglot
Indonesian Chinese
Meixian
Guangdong
China
Medan
Sumatra
Indonesia
Dutch East Indies
the Netherlands
Hong Kong
Chinese
variants
Hakka
Mandarin

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