NOT even heavy rain could stop the South Wales Autograss League running their opening meeting of the season at the Castle Lloyd farm circuit above Pendine.

A total of 133 drivers signed on including 79 from the SWL and 46 from the neighbouring West Wales League.

With the two opening heats over, the finals would see the rain stop for some closely fought races including Matthew Dance TA30 who won class five after his engine fire the previous week at the Cwmdu meeting.

The next SWL meeting will take place on May 13th and will also be a qualifying meeting. Results Class 1: 1, CM22 Matt Scourfield; 2, PAC10 Barry Lewis; 3, TA66 Darren Thomas; 4, TA26 Dafydd James.

Class 2: 1, PAC81 Will Elford; 2, PAC51 Matt Sawyer; 3, C64 Lloyd Morgan; 4, TA54 Barry Evans.

Class 3: 1, CM4 Viv Cole.

Class 4: 1, CM7 Huw Jones; 2, TA58 Stephen Jones; 3, TA86 Rhydian Evans; 4, TA36 Trystan Daniels.

Class 5: 1, TA30 Matthew Dance; 2, TA451 Lewis Richards; 3, TA114 Iwan Rees; 4, PAC15 Gwyn James.

Class 6: 1, TA221 Neil Reed; 2, PHD44 Damian Longotano; 3, PHD57 Neil Morgan; 4, S2 Paul Meli. Class 7: 1, PHD72 Jake Roberts; 2, TA43 Adam Jones; 3, TA11 Nigel Edwards; 4, TA32 Alun Jenkins.

Class 8: 1, PHD2 Phil Rogers; 2, PHD47 Danny Thomas; 3, PAC18 Luke Jenkins; 4, TA3 Gareth Jones.

Class 9: 1, PHD9 Wayne Llewellyn; 2, TA14 Islwyn Edwards; 3, TA17 Anthony Paines; 4, PAC60 Simon Kemp.

Class 10: 1,PHD12 Carl Ray; 2, TA49 Godfrey Thomas; 3, TA200 Aled Dark; 4, TA747 Marc Jones.

Class 11: 1, PAC2 Alice Bevans; 2, TA66 Fiona Thomas; 3, PHD11 Carla Roberts; 4,TA80 Helen Thomas.

Class 11A: 1, PAC115 Claire Hall.

Class 12: 1, CM25 Danielle Phillips.

Class 13: No finishers.

Class 14: No finishers.

Juniors: 1, TA18 Dafydd Jones; 2, TA116 Hedd Wilshaw; 3, PAC83 Chloe Parry; 4, PAC249 Iwan Davies.

Junior specials: 1, PHD17 Ben Williams; 2, TA82 Dan Morris; 3, TA10 Dean Thomas; 4, PHD98 McColey McGuire.