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Auckland speedway meeting, around 1930

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Auckland speedway meeting, around 1930

An assortment of midget racing cars and stripped-down vintage vehicles line up for a race at Henning's Speedway in Māngere, Auckland, the district's first speedway track. Motor-racing entrepreneur George Henning bought a harbourside farm and reclaimed a tidal basin to create this very dusty 1.25-mile (2-kilometre) circuit. It hosted races from 1923 to 1934, when speedway racing moved to Onehunga.

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Jim Webber, Motor sport – Speedway and drag racing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39959/auckland-speedway-meeting-around-1930 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jim Webber, published 29 November 2012, updated 1 April 2016.