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LAKELAND, FL (May 15, 2017) — Austen Semmelmann knew that the initial start and any restarts would be crucial on Monday night at the USA Raceway in Lakeland, FL, as the World of Outlaws Team VLR Sprint Car Series visited the 3/4 mile oval. Semmelmann was able to get the jump on the initial start, and subsequently got good launches following the four cautions that occurred in order to pull away to a .0639 victory over Howard Weaver.

The veteran driver started on the pole in the main event and found Weaver hot on his heels when the caution came out on lap two of the 35 lap race involving Eric Tupper. Semmelmann was then able to weather the next three cautions to hold off Howard Weaver, who is typically known for his Dirt Late Model prowess.

“We had a great Buffalo Wild Wings 360 Sprint Car tonight here at USA," commented Semmelmann in Victory Lane. "This is one of my best tracks for sure and I thought we would have a fast car. The track was a little slick which is perfect for my driving style so you had to work the throttle more than usual. I'm just happy to get the first win out of the way in this series and hope to win many more."

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MECHANICSBURG, PA (May 15, 2017) – Trevor Denton held off a slew of challengers to win his first career VLR Pro Late Model Series race on Sunday night in iRacing. The Knoxville, TN driver's victory was the second of his entire VLR career spanning two different games. However, finding victory lane in his fourth start in the VLR iRacing series shows that he has what it takes to be one of the top competitors in the business right from the start.

Denton's teammate and last weeks winner Howard Weaver, also a Tennessee driver from Crossville, made the trip north as well and brought home a strong second place finish but had nothing for the 149 machine of Denton. Denton lead every lap en route to the win and survived a late caution to pull away to a nearly two second victory.

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ROSSBURG, OH (May 11, 2017) – In his first ever start in the 13 year history of Team VLR, Grant Ryals made a statement by winning in his first attempt in the Super Dirt Late Models. In front of a tremendous crowd and while closing out an action-packed race that was filled with drama, Ryals made a bold slidejob with three laps to go on pole-sitter Virgil Graham to seal the deal by just 0.217 seconds.

Graham set fast time for the even with an extremely impressive lap time of 15.355 around the 1/2 mile oval. The Pennsylvania driver would then go on to lead every lap of the feature until lap 47 of 50 when Ryals finally was able to make a move.

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The VLR 360 Sprints rolled into Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, PA for the first ever official VLR 360 sprint car race. Sam Locuson would take the pole with a lap of 18.069. Team VLR drivers Josh Weems, Howard Weaver and Austen Semmelmann rounded out the top four qualifiers. Locuson would unfortunately fall to 6th in a wildly contested heat one. Bergeron would muscle his Ratbag sponsored 360 sprint car to the win followed Brandon Smith, Austen Semmelmann and Derek Line. Eric Hough, after failing to master the science of a qualifying lap, muscled his way to the win in heat 2 followed by Josh Weems, Tommy Champagne and Timothy Gustin.

The A-Main event began rather peacefully with Bergeron pulling out to about a one second lead followed by a determined Hough! Howard Weaver would see his race begin from the pits, as his crew members mistakenly fueled the car with diesel prior to the start of the race causing his car to mysteriously flip over on its top before the green flag even waved. Weaver promptly fired his entire crew and crashed soon afterwards with nobody available to repair his car.

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Due to issues on both our end and iRacing's, tonights (5/1/17) race will not count for points. We will also be running the 360s instead of the 410 Sprint Cars for the rest of the season.

We are all new to each other for the most part, and we feel that a slightly slower car will be more beneficial for the time being.

I promise in the future as we weed out the bad apples and get used to how each other races, things will get much better. VLRs dedication to DTR2 kept it alive long past what anyone would've expected, and we intend to keep that same dedication here as well in a simulation that we expect to only improve over the months and years ahead..

Again, on behalf of Team VLR I would like to apologize for the mess tonight, and we can all look forward to making improvements going forward.

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