Prescott Speed Hill Climb

[3] The club also ran a one-off event at Joel Park, Northwood Hill, Middlesex, on 22 June 1935, which was won by Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth, on a Bugatti, in a time of 30.16 sec.

[5] Motor Sport reported in December 1937: "It will be recalled that about two years ago the Club planned to make Dancer's End a first-class hill-climb venue, and obtained approval from the landowner, Alan P. Good.

Unfortunately, the noise nuisance, which is a disease not unknown to motor-race course promoters, broke out and the project was reluctantly abandoned,..."[6]The first event at Prescott was staged in April 1938, on what is now the Short Course.

[12] This resulted from an incident at the Bugatti Owners' Club meeting on 15 June 1947, when Sydney: "shot through the hedge at the semi-circle and landed well out in the field in the single-seater Allard.

[14] On 9 September 1951 at the Bugatti Owners' Club International Event Ken Wharton broke the track record in a time of 43.81 sec in a Cooper 1,000 c.c.

A new "Test Day" edition to their calendar a few weeks before the season opener has made Prescott an ideal location to kick off the year.

The variety provided by Prescott allows for a wide range of cars and classes from the top of the British championships all the way down to pre second world war classics.

An episode of Top Gear was filmed here, including a race between an Austin-Healey Sprite, which had most of its body panels removed, and a V6 Peugeot 306 with a number of cosmetic modifications and hydraulic suspension.