The speedway on Omahu Road in Hastings was built by Stuart Lyndon’s grandfather, George Matthew Spencer.

As told by Russell Lyndon:

George Spencer built Monarch Motors, which most people in Hastings will remember. And he was going to build it for himself but he was pretty old by then – he was in his sixties – and he decided ‘No, I won’t do that – I’ll lease it’. So he leased it out to the Jones boys, and the Jones boys eventually bought the building and the site.

And so George basically retired after that – but, not quite. He got a little thought about building a speedway; and so down the end of Omahu Road, just about where Jarvis Road is … just opposite there … used to be Firth Concrete; in behind there. I think you can still see the mounds where the spectators used to sit. And he built a speedway track there, and he used to have the Morrie Dunns, and Split Waterman, and all these guys came out from England. Morrie Dunn was a New Zealander, lived in Hastings; but Ronnie Moore would’ve been there; Bruce Abernethy; rode there.