IRC-TIRE will be one of the brand new sponsors for the 2015 season of the NIPPO – Vini Fantini – De Rosa professional cycling team.
IRC-TIRE is a well-known tire manufacturer with a strong reputation on the two wheels with off-road market.
Now, a new big challenge for the company is the debut on the road cycling competitions and into the European market. To start this new challenge IRC sponsor the new Italian-Japanese project of the NIPPO – Vini Fantini team, created with the big goal of Tokyo 2020.
“It is very important project for IRC to be part of an Italian-Japanese team, that has the aim to promote our Company as well as the Japanese cycling on an international level – explained Koichi Murata, brand Manager of IRC Tire – we have chosen NIPPO – Vini Fantini to get into the Professional world of cycling. This gives us the opportunity to develop our products and to expose IRC TIRE brand in the European market, which will become more and more relevant in the next five years. I want to personally thank Hiroshi Daimon and the whole Management of the team for the consideration into our Company. We are sure we will have the chance to offer an important surplus value to this great project.”
Thanks to IRC, another important Japanese Company is now sustaining the team that have the important goal to nurture the most important young talents of the Japanese cycling, looking forward to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Thanks to the experience of the Sportive Directors Stefano Giuliani and Hiroshi Daimon, with the experience of a great leader as Damiano Cunego, the young talented Japanese and Italian cyclists have everything to do a great job in the Professional Cycling world. NIPPO Vini Fantini young and talented cyclists, with their De Rosabicycles and IRC Tires, they are all ready to bring great results.