Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa Circuit ( et, Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa ringrada) is an inactive

street circuit A street circuit is a motorsport racing circuit composed of temporarily closed-off public roads of a city, town or village, used in motor races. Airport runways and taxiways are also sometimes part of street circuits. Facilities such as the p ...

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. It is located in

Pirita Pirita is one of the eight administrative districts ( et, linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Pirita occupies a relatively big area, but compared to other districts of Tallinn its population of 17,592 (as of 1 November 2014) is relati ...

Kloostrimets Kloostrimetsa (Estonian for "''Convent Forest''") is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Pirita, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It's located north of the Pirita River and is mostly covered by the park forest Kloostrimets (''Cloister F ...

(''Monastery Forest''), crosses the

Pirita River The Pirita ( et, Pirita jõgi) is a long river in northern Estonia that drains into Tallinn Bay (part of the Gulf of Finland) in Pirita, Tallinn. The basin area of the Pirita is 799 km2. For the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, the ...

twice. The length of the original track was . The circuit was opened in 17 September 1933. Motorcycle TT races took place from 1933 to 1939 and car races were held from 1934 to 1936 as

Estonian Grand Prix The Estonian Grand Prix was a auto racing, motor race. Mostly held for motorcycles, three times it was held for cars in the period between the World Wars. The race was established on a road course held between the villages of Pirita and Kose, n ...

with mainly local and Finnish entries. After World War II the track was used for Soviet championships. Five-time world champion

Joey Dunlop William Joseph "Joey" Dunlop (25 February 1952 – 2 July 2000) was a Northern Irish motorcyclist from Ballymoney. Career He won his third hat trick at the Isle of Man TT in 2000 and set his fastest lap on the course of 123.87 mph in th ...

was killed in an accident on the Kloostrimetsa circuit in 2000. A memorial stone was erected a year later. In 3 June 2006, the track was closed for racing after the 2006 annual Kalevi Suursõit motorcycle race as in order to bring the safety up to acceptable levels, hundreds of trees along the track would be needed to be felled, all of which are under protection as part of the park surrounding the track.https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/51075013/kalevi-suursoit-1959-2006-motomeelsete-laulupidu

Gallery

File:Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa ringrada 74 (2).jpg, Race in 1974 File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Kloostrimetsa 003.JPG, Lükati bridge File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Merivälja street.JPG, In

File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Kose-Lükati bus stop.JPG, In

Kose Kose is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Harju County, 39 kilometers (24 miles) southeast of Tallinn, Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Kose Parish and lies next to Pirita River. At the 2011 Census, the settlement's population wa ...

File:Memorial of Joey Dunlop.JPG, Memorial of

Lap records

The official race lap records at the Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa Circuit are listed as:

References

Defunct motorsport venues Motorsport venues in Estonia Motorcycle Road Racing Venues Sports venues in Tallinn 1930s establishments in Estonia {{Autoracing-venue-stub