Dominique Aegerter

Dominique Aegerter (born 30 September 1990) is a Swiss professional circuit racer of solo motorcycles, competing in World superbike Championship. He won the Supersport World Championship in and 2022. He also won the MotoE World Cup in . He is also the first Swiss rider to set foot on a world SBK podium.

For 2023, Aegerter joined the GRT Yamaha team in World Superbikes.

Career

Early career Born in Rohrbach, Switzerland, Aegerter started his career in motocross. He then competed in the ADAC Pro Junior Cup 125cc class in 2003 and 2004. In 2005 he moved into the equivalent IDM class, where he competed until the end of 2006. Also in 2006, Aegerter was called up by Multimedia Racing to compete in the 125cc World Championship. Aegerter made his world championship debut in the Portuguese Grand Prix replacing fellow Swiss rider Vincent Braillard. He remained with the team for the rest of the season.

125cc World Championship Aegerter continued with Multimedia Racing for the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and still had Italian teammates Raffaele De Rosa and Simone Grotzkyj. He had a very slow start only managing to score back to back 15th place at the 2007 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix and at the 2007 Dutch TT, and later at the wet 2007 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix at 11th place. This championship points scoring finishes only manage he finished at 23rd place with 7 points.

For the 2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, he was offered alongside Frenchman Mike Di Meglio by Ajo Motorsport to ride for them. They both accepted it, while Di Meglio has a full factory Derbi RSA 125, he uses only a standard Derbi RS 125 making him the only Derbi rider to use a standard Derbi bike. Results improved however, as he finished 16th overall, peaking with three 8th places – ahead of di Meglio in Spain, and in San Marino and Malaysia.

For 2009, Aegerter stays with the team alongside Sandro Cortese. Both riders use the factory Derbi RSA 125, giving Aegerter hope for a stronger year than 2008. Sixth place in the wet at Le Mans was the highlight of the first half of the season.

Moto2 World Championship At the 2014 German Grand Prix, Aegerter achieved both his first Grand Prix pole position and victory in his 129th fending off Mika Kallio's advances in the closing stages.

MotoGP test

Kawasaki (2015) In 2015, Aegerter took part in tests with Akira Kawasaki MotoGP who supplied Kawasaki engines to the Avintia Racing team in MotoGP along with the WSBK riders.

Suzuki (2022) Aegerter made a debut-ride in September 2022 at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, near Misano, Italy, with Team Suzuki Ecstar in a mid-season test. He rode a Suzuki GSX-RR motorcycle due to injury of the regular rider. Aegerter has previously competed for Suzuki in the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race, when the Swiss racer was on the podium twice.

Supersport World Championship Aegerter competed in the 2021 Supersport World Championship, winning the title with Ten Kate Racing Yamaha team.

In the 2022 Supersport World Championship, Aegerter received a one race ban for unsporting behaviour when leading the championship with nine consecutive wins. After a crash caused by another rider at the first corner of lap one at the Most round, he simulated an injury to try to force a red flag and start the race again.

Superbike World Championship GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team (from 2023) After he clinched the World Supersport world championship in 2022, Aegerter joined GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team for the 2023 Superbike World Championship.

CIV Superbike Championship In 2024, Aegerter competed in the CIV Superbike championship in Italy as a wildcard entry at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli. Aegerter used the event as training and preparation for the upcoming Superbike World Championship round in Portimao.

Career statistics Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

By class Class Seasons 1st GP 1st pod 1st win Race Win Podiums Pole FLap Pts WChmp 125cc 2006–2009 2006 Portugal 52 0 0 0 0 122.5 0 Moto2 2010–2020 2010 Qatar 2011 Valencia 2014 Germany 168 1 7 1 1 903 0 MotoE 2020–2022 2020 Spain 2020 Spain 2020 Andalusia 26 5 18 4 4 417 1 Total 2006–2022 246 6 25 5 5 1442.5 1

Races by year (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap) Half points awarded as less than two thirds of the race distance (but at least three full laps) was completed.

Suzuka 8 Hours results Year Team Co-riders Bike Pos 2014 Team KAGAYAMA & Verity Yukio Kagayama Noriyuki Haga Suzuki GSX-R1000 3rd 2015 F.C.C. TSR Joshua Hook Kyle Smith Honda CBR1000RR 2nd 2016 F.C.C. TSR P. J. Jacobsen Kazuma Watanabe Honda CBR1000RR 18th 2017 F.C.C. TSR Randy de Puniet Joshua Hook Honda CBR1000RR 3rd

FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship Races by year (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pos Pts 2020 Kalex EST1 EST2 POR1 POR2 JER1 JER2 ARA1 ARA2 ARA3 VAL1 VAL2 16th 36

Supersport World Championship Races by year (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Pos Pts Yamaha SPA SPA POR POR ITA ITA NED NED CZE CZE SPA SPA FRA FRA SPA SPA SPA SPA POR POR ARG ARG INA INA 1st 417 Yamaha SPA SPA NED NED POR POR ITA ITA GBR GBR CZE CZE FRA FRA SPA SPA POR POR ARG ARG INA INA AUS AUS 1st 498 Kawasaki AUS AUS POR POR NED NED HUN HUN CZE CZE ARA ARA EMI EMI GBR GBR FRA FRA ITA ITA EST EST SPA SPA 25th* 0* Season still in progress.

Superbike World Championship

By season Season Class Team Race Win Podium Pole FLap Pts Plcd Yamaha YZF-R1 GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team 36 0 2 0 1 163 8th Yamaha YZF-R1 GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team 27 0 0 0 0 91 16th Yamaha YZF-R1 GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team 28 0 0 0 1 100 14th Total 91 0 2 0 2 354

Races by year (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pos Pts R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 R1 SR R2 Yamaha AUS AUS AUS INA INA INA NED NED NED SPA SPA SPA ITA ITA ITA GBR GBR GBR ITA ITA ITA CZE CZE CZE FRA FRA FRA SPA SPA SPA POR POR POR SPA SPA SPA 8th 163 Yamaha AUS AUS AUS SPA SPA SPA NED NED NED ITA ITA ITA GBR GBR GBR CZE CZE CZE POR POR POR FRA FRA FRA ITA ITA ITA SPA SPA SPA POR POR POR SPA SPA SPA 16th 91 Yamaha AUS AUS AUS POR POR POR NED NED NED ITA ITA ITA CZE CZE CZE ITA ITA ITA GBR GBR GBR HUN HUN HUN FRA FRA FRA SPA SPA SPA POR POR POR SPA SPA SPA 14th 100

IDM Championship By year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Class Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pos Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 2025 Superbike Yamaha OSC OSC SCH SCH CZE CZE OSC OSC NED NED NÜR NÜR HOC HOC NC NA