[1] On August 6, 1972 the Winnipeg Sports Car Club organized the first road racing event on one of the original decommissioned parallel runways of RCAF Station Gimli which had closed the previous year in September 1971.
Gimli Industrial Park Airport continues to operate on the second runway of the World War II airfield.
[2] Gimli Motorsport Park was the site of the infamous Gimli Glider incident in 1983, an aviation accident in which Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767, ran out of fuel midflight and emergency-landed on the former runway, then operating as the race track during a Formula Ford race.
[3] From 1990 to 1996, Gimli Motorsports Park was the host of the Sunfest rock festival, which was attended by tens of thousands of people every August.
Interlake Dragway is a 1/4-mile IHRA sanctioned drag strip located inside the road course.