Sunday 5th October 1924

Parry Thomas set the first Montlhery lap record, of 42.4 seconds at a speed of 131.89 mph (212.26 km/h) in a Leyland, during a Match Race against Ernest Eldridge in a 300 hp aeroplane-engined chain-driven Fiat and Duray in a 8 cylinder D’Aoust on the Sunday of the first meeting at the newly opened track. Eldridge won the race at 121.04 mph (194.8 km/h), after the Leyland developed tyre trouble.