Editing Canadian Tire (section)

====Motorsport====
[[File:Event Centre and Tunnel at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.jpg|thumb|A tunnel with Canadian Tire signage on the top of it at [[Canadian Tire Motorsport Park]], where the company has naming rights.]]
During the 1980s, the company sponsored an [[IndyCar]] racing team. Alfred J. Billes's son [[Dave Billes|David Billes]] was a Canadian [[Chevrolet Corvette|Corvette]] racer before opening Performance Engineering Ltd. He was later [[Jacques Villeneuve Sr.]]'s car owner in [[Champ Car|CART]] IndyCar competition in the early 1980s and entered two cars in the [[1985 Indianapolis 500]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19850521&id=PxgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1aUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1199,242799|title=Two Indy entries a first for Canada|date=May 21, 1985|work=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]|page=D6|access-date=23 April 2013|location=Montreal|archive-date=May 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516125009/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19850521&id=PxgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1aUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1199,242799|url-status=live}}</ref> In [[1985 CART PPG Indy Car World Series|1985]], Jacques Villeneuve Sr. won the race at [[Road America]].

David Billes was inducted into the [[Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |last1=BILLES |first1=DAVE |title=Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame |url=http://cmhf.ca/dave-billes/ |website=cmhf.ca |access-date=December 15, 2018 |archive-date=September 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907090514/http://cmhf.ca/dave-billes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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! # !! Season !! Date !! Sanction !! Track/Race !! No. !! Winning Driver !! Chassis !! Engine !! Tire !! Grid !! Laps Led
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|align=center|1
![[1985 CART PPG Indy Car World Series|1985]]
|August 4
|[[Champ Car|CART]]
|[[Kohler Grand Prix|Road America]] '''(R)'''
|align=center|'''76'''
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Jacques Villeneuve (racing driver, born 1953)|Jacques Villeneuve Sr.]]
|[[Lola Cars|March]] 85C
|[[Cosworth]] [[Cosworth DFV#DFX|DFX]] [[V8 engine|V8]] [[Turbocharger|t]]
|[[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]]
|align=center| 4
|align=center| 14
|}

The company has had [[naming rights]] at [[Canadian Tire Motorsport Park]], formerly known as [[Mosport International Raceway]], since 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canadiantiremotorsportpark.com/pages/history|title=History - Canadian Tire Motorsport - Official Site|publisher=[[Canadian Tire Motorsport Park]]|access-date=1 September 2022|archive-date=August 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811144421/https://canadiantiremotorsportpark.com/pages/history|url-status=live}}</ref>