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A four-hour police operation targeting boy racers ended in Wellington early on Friday with 15 cars ordered off the road.
Police had earlier corralled 120 boy racer vehicles in a Kaiwharawhara car park while the cars underwent thorough road-worthiness checks.
Strategic Traffic Unit sergeant Mark Moody said police were tipped off that boy racers had been planning street races along the old Hutt Road and Thorndon Quay.
"We stopped possible illegal street racing from taking place and were very concerned about the number of dangerously modified vehicles we came across."
The operation took place in the Spotlight carpark at the bottom of the Ngaio Gorge, where boy racers had congregated after a mass text went out.
By the end of the operation, 15 cars had been ordered off the road and 38 infringement notices issued.
Cameron Blake, 17, said there were about six police cars and seven officers involved in the operation.
"We were prisoners in the car park until they finished inspecting our vehicles," he told the Dominion Post.
