Behind the Iron Curtain

It is encouraging to learn, from someone in Estonia who corresponds with a friend of ours, that motor racing is enthusiastically supported in the smallest of the USSR nations. Apparently it started there in 1921 and racing is now held at the somewhat narrow and difficult Pirita circuit, where more than 100,000 spectators have watched the sport—that in a nation of only 1.3-million citizens. They have a racing-car factory and half the top drivers in Russia are said to come from Estonia, where they follow keenly the World’s motor racing news, British and American Motor journals coming in via Sweden.