Former RAINBOW Keyboardist Launches EBC RACING-TEAM

Mercedes-Benz enters the 2010 Formula One World Championship with a new team of its own. The real Silver Arrows, the famous Grand Prix racing cars of Mercedes-Benz, which appreared for the first time on track in 1934, are back. On top of that: Michael Schumacher, the seven-time world champion of Formula One, is one of the drivers of the new Mercedes Grand Prix Team.

To celebrate the new start of a Grand Prix legend, one of the biggest sensations in the history of Formula One, the new band project EBC RACING-TEAM presents a very special song: "Silver Arrows (Racing On)".

The EBC RACING-TEAM is: Ela, Jürgen "J.R." Blackmore and Tony Carey.

EBC represents the surnames of the three team members.

American rock and blues singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer Tony Carey was the leading person of this new project. In 2004 he had his first contact to the world of Formula One by performing at a charity event during the Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in Germany. Apart from his solo program, Carey then was together on stage for David Bowie's "Heroes" with the band of Eddie Jordan, who was the principal of a F1 team at the time.

Now for Tony Carey the occasion of the return of the real Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows was the right moment to fulfill his old idea of combining rock music and Formula One. So he decided to compose and to produce a new rock 'n' race hymn reflecting all of the thrilling atmosphere of racing Grand Prix cars as well as the great successes of the Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows.

Carey, having just recovered from cancer, started this work by the end of November 2009. And he took two musicians on board, with whom he had successfully cooperated at last: Ela, the soaring new German rock lady, to join him doing the vocals and Englishman J.R. Blackmore, son of former DEEP PURPLE and RAINBOW guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore, to play the guitar. Finally it was Blackmore junior who wrote the music of "Silver Arrows (Racing On)", while Carey wrote the lyrics and handled the entire production.

Tony Carey had produced a couple of Ela's songs for her latest solo record, "Make My Day", in 2008. With J.R. Blackmore he had toured in early 2009 in with OVER THE RAINBOW, also featuring fellow ex-RAINBOW members Joe Lynn Turner on vocals and Bobby Rondinelli on drums.

Carey was RAINBOW's keyboardist from 1975 to 1977.

"Silver Arrows (Racing On)" is the very first composition published under the names of Blackmore and Carey.

For more information, visit www.ebc-racing-team.com.