IT'S all change this weekend for the annual 'Classic weekend' at Prescott Speed Hill Climb which will now comprise two one-day meetings, with the traditional Classic and Members event on Saturday and the inaugural 'Historic Prescott' on Sunday.

Bugatti Owners' Club competition secretary Allan Cameron explains: "The two meetings will be entirely separate, though a few drivers will compete on both days.

"In each event practice will be in the morning with the competitive runs in the afternoon, and on Sunday there will be the traditional Bugatti cavalcade at lunchtime."

In order to be sure of seeing the cavalcade, spectators should really be there by midday, and there is also a Bugatti class in Sunday's competition. There will be no Bugattis in Satur-day's event.

Club members will compete on Saturday, mainly in modern cars, and there are classes for Morgan sports cars and three wheelers, Reliant Scimitars, Triumph TRs and Ginettas, all of them well-supported. To complete the day there is a very popular pre-1971 Classic handicap followed by solo motor cycles and three wheelers.

Sunday opens with a Pre-War Handicap with a great variety of cars, the earliest dating from 1913, and they are followed by classes for sports and racing cars - all of them over 30 years old - competing as they would have done at Prescott back in the 1960s and before.

Then there's the Bugatti Handicap, a special section for Austin Healey sports cars, who are celebrating 50 years since the marque was launched at the 1952 Motor Show, plus a second outing for the motor cycles.

Local drivers taking part include Andy Couchman (Great Rissington), Roy James (Stow), Richard Scaldwell (Moreton), Bill Newman (Evesham), Simon Bloomfield (Beckford), Tewk-esbury's Ian Aspey and Stef Jones, Frank Forbes from Prescott, Mike Steele (Bishop's Cleeve).

Prescott is five miles from Cheltenham off the main A435 Evesham Road near the village of Gotherington and is fully RAC signed.

Practice starts at 9.30am on Saturday with the competitive runs in the afternoon. Practice on Sunday is from 10am followed by the Bugatti Cavalcade and the competition itself.

Adult admission is £6 on Saturday and £10 on Sunday. Children under 14 are admitted free and car parking is free.

The next meeting is the Mid-land Championship event on Saturday and Sunday, June 29 and 30.