Previously known as the Autódromo de Pinhais or the Circuito Raul Boesel, the Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba was a 3.7 km circuit in Brazil which operated from 1967 to 2022.

Designed by Ayrton Cornelsen, who also penned the Estoril layout in Portugal, the Curitiba track began life in the late 1950s when plans for a new sporting complex in the Pinhais district were drawn up.

Construction started in 1965, and the layout of the circuit was completed by 1966. Unusually a race was even held on the dirt surface before the asphalt surface was completed a year later.

The circuit then unexpectedly closed just five years after opening in 1971, when owner Chagas Lima, unhappy with the politics within the Automobile Club of Paraná, closed the doors on the facility, save for the odd test or rally stage.

The circuit remained effectively closed for the following 17 years, until he was persuaded to reopen the facility in 1988.

With modernisation required, local businessman Jauneval de Oms was given a 12-year lease and small track adjustments, in order to improve safety and runoff, were made, along with a new pitlane and paddock.

At the same time the circuit was renamed after the adjacent and larger settlement of Curitiba.

The reopening was more successful than the original opening. In due course, World Touring Cars came to visit in 2006 and became an annual fixture for seven years, with SEAT’s turbo diesels performing especially well at the circuit over 930 metres above sea level.

After over a decade of talk about a potential sale of the circuit for redevelopment, including a near-closure in 2016, its fate was sealed in 2021 when it was announced it was to close and be redeveloped into a 560,000 square metre planned neighbourhood and shopping centre.