Kicking off the season in the Motorland Aragón with a championship race before a domestic audience is something really special. The 3C-Racing Team are delighted to have this unique opportunity along with their pilot and wish him plenty of success for the race.

In addition to the preparation done by the 3C-Racing Team, – the test drives for the IDM are taking place in April – the current German master will already be able to drive a few kilometres before the kick-off of this year’s SUPERBIKE*IDM.

During the first weekend in May, there is going to be a showdown of the highest motorcycle sports class taking place at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz.

EUROPAN is the biggest design competition for urban planning and architecture. The 13th edition begins on 2 March 2015 at around 50 sites throughout Europe. In the context of the project, more than 2,000 young architects and planners address the current issues facing urban planning and develop visionary ideas and strategic concepts for selected situations in various locations around Europe.

This year Landsberg am Lech is also taking part with a local recreation area to the south of the city. The 3C-Carbon Group AG's Lechrain Technology Park is at the centre of the competition area for “Europan 13” (marked in yellow), and is to be expanded to the North with an industrial residential area.

By the 3C-Carbon Group AG acquiring the Horex brand, an important piece of German industrial history was able to be saved from being sold off abroad. The exceedingly successful high-tech company from Landsberg am Lech has taken over the Horex brand with the goal of successfully continuing the soon-to-be 100-year history of a German motorcycle manufacturer that is rich in tradition. Horex brand motorcycle models should be brought back to the market as soon as possible and further expand their prior success.

In order to lead the Horex brand to a new bout of glory, not only a lot of heart and soul, but also essential optimisations are going to be required from a technical and organisational perspective. The goal is to devise a marketable concept in order to get new clientele enthusiastic about Horex.

Loyal fans as well as dedicated dealers form an important basis for this new start and should be involved in the process of finding ideas. The 3C-Group is therefore striving to ensure functioning supply of spare parts for the Horex VR6 models that had most recently been produced.

Further information on the 3C-Carbon Group AG

The 3C-Carbon Group AG is a rapidly expanding company group in the field of development and manufacturing of high-tech fibre composite structures for the automotive, mechanical engineering, medical technology and aerospace industries.

At its sites located in Landsberg am Lech, Baden-Württemberg and in Switzerland, the company group produces high-tech components made from carbon fibre (carbon), meeting cutting-edge production standards. Thereby, the development speed and the reliability of the company, as well as the quality of the components are considered to be a recognised benchmark on the market.

Furthermore, the 3C group is maintaining an internationally operating development and racing team, that has confidently been able to win the International German Championship (Drivers and Manufacturers title) in the highest German motorcycling class within the scope of the SUPERBIKE*IDM in 2014.

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Last Friday, as part of the champions’ gala of the German motorsport association (DMSB) in Wiesbaden, the team was honoured for its successes by DMSB president Wolfgang Glas. In a festive atmosphere at the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden and in front of over 400 invited guests, 3C-Racing Team received the DMSB cup for the title of drivers’ and manufacturers’ champions in the SUPERBIKE*IDM superbike class.

The open practice session on Friday was held under sunny conditions and all the riders in the 3C-Racing Team wanted to put in as many laps as possible. Apart from a short practice session in Mugello beforehand, they had hardly had a chance to get a feel for the new WSBK bike. This was a major handicap because there is a considerable difference between the engines and chassis of the IDM and WSBK bikes.

The 3C-Racing Team was supported in the pits by five Ducati engineers and its IDM partners Öhlins and Pirelli. Both companies sent their technicians from the IDM series to Magny Cours to provide the best possible support for the wild card start of the IDM-winning 3C Racing Team.

Xavi Forés qualified directly for the superpole 2, whilst Max Neukirchner and Lorenzo Lanzi had to take the long route via the superpole 1. Neukirchner (12th position) lined up with Forés (11th position) on the fourth row of the starting grid. Lanzi ended up starting from 15th position.

It rained non-stop on the Sunday of the meeting and both legs turned into wet races. Forés rode brilliantly and had the chance of finishing in the top 5 in both races. However, he fell in the first race whilst lying in 6th place and unfortunately also had to drop out of the second race with a technical defect.

Neukirchner secured his best World Championship placings since 2009 with 6th and 9th positions and thus earned the 3C-Racing Team two top 10 places on its first World Championship appearance.Lanzi lived up to his reputation as a rain specialist. In the first race at Magny Cours he crossed the finishing line immediately behind Davide Giugliano (Ducati works team) in 8th position and thus one place ahead of Neukirchner. Lanzi managed an even bigger sensation in the second race by finishing 5th, his converted IDM 3C-Racing Team machine was the best placed Ducati in this race – over 40 seconds in front of the works machine of Chaz Davies (9th position).

Team boss Karsten Jerschke: "The technical level and the riding skills in World Superbike racing are very impressive. It's exciting to have so much competition all of a sudden, the gaps between all the riders are minimal. All in all, 3C was able to keep up with the world's elite. From a standing start, the team has conjured up a bike capable of taking on the best in the world on a completely different basis to that in the IDM series. In view of the fact that the competition has had a whole year to fine-tune their machines, our result is almost sensational."

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