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Dominique Aegerter
Dominique Aegerter
	Aegerter in 2014
Nationality	Swiss
Born	30 September 1990 (age 33); Rohrbach, Switzerland
Current team	GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team
Bike number	77
Website	https://www.domi77.com
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Moto2 World Championship
Active years	2010–2020
Manufacturers	Suter, Kalex, KTM, MV Agusta, NTS
Championships	0
2020 championship position	28th (4 pts)
125cc World Championship
Active years	2006–2009
Manufacturers	Aprilia, Derbi
Championships	0
2009 championship position	13th (70.5 pts)
MotoE World Championship
Active years	2020–2022
Manufacturers	Energica
Championships	1 (2022)
2022 championship position	1st (227 pts)
Superbike World Championship
Active years	2023-
Manufacturers	Yamaha (2023– )
Championships	0
2023 championship position	8th (163 pts)
Supersport World Championship
Active years	2021–2022
Manufacturers	Yamaha
Championships	2 (2021, 2022)
2022 championship position	1st (498 pts)

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 2021 and 2022. He also won the MotoE World Cup in 2022.He is also the first Swiss rider to step foot on a world SBK podium.

For 2023, Aegerter joined the GRT Yamaha team in World Superbikes.^[2]

Career edit

Early career edit

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 edit

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 edit

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.^[3]

MotoGP test edit

Kawasaki (2015) edit

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.^[4]

Suzuki (2022) edit

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.^[5]

Supersport World Championship edit

He competed in the 2021 Supersport World Championship, winning the title with Ten Kate Racing Yamaha team.^[6]

In the 2022 Supersport World Championship, he 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.^[7]^[8]

Superbike World Championship edit

GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team (from 2023) edit

After he clinch as World Supersport world champion in 2022, he joined Yamaha for the 2023 Superbike World Championship.^[9]

Career statistics edit

Grand Prix motorcycle racing edit

By season edit

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Type	Team	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2006	125cc	Aprilia	Aprilia RS 125	Multimedia Racing	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2007	125cc	Aprilia	Aprilia RS 125	Multimedia Racing	17	0	0	0	0	7	23rd
2008	125cc	Derbi	Derbi RS 125	Ajo Motorsport	17	0	0	0	0	45	16th
2009	125cc	Derbi	Derbi RSA 125	Ajo Interwetten	16	0	0	0	0	70.5	13th
2010	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMX	Technomag-CIP	17	0	0	0	0	74	15th
2011	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMXI	Technomag-CIP	17	0	1	0	0	94	8th
2012	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMX2	Technomag-CIP	17	0	0	0	0	114	8th
2013	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMX2	Technomag carXpert	17	0	1	0	0	158	5th
2014	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMX2	Technomag carXpert	18	1	4	1	1	172	5th
2015	Moto2	Kalex	Kalex Moto2	Technomag Racing Interwetten	14	0	1	0	0	62	17th
2016	Moto2	Kalex	Kalex Moto2	CarXpert Interwetten	12	0	0	0	0	71	12th
2017	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMX2	Kiefer Racing	17	0	0	0	0	88	12th
2018	Moto2	KTM	KTM Moto2	Kiefer Racing	16	0	0	0	0	47	17th
2019	Moto2	MV Agusta	MV Agusta F2	MV Agusta Idealavoro Forward	19	0	0	0	0	19	22nd
2020	MotoE	Energica	Energica Ego Corsa	Dynavolt Intact GP	7	2	4	1	1	97	3rd
2020	Moto2	NTS	NTS NH7	NTS RW Racing GP	4	0	0	0	0	4	28th
2021	MotoE	Energica	Energica Ego Corsa	Dynavolt Intact GP	7	0	4	0	1	93	2nd
2022	MotoE	Energica	Energica Ego Corsa	Dynavolt Intact GP	12	3	10	3	2	227	1st
Total					246	6	25	5	5	1442.5

By class edit

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 edit

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Pos	Pts
2006	125cc	Aprilia	SPA	QAT	TUR	CHN	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	MAL	AUS	JPN	POR 26	VAL 29				NC	0
2007	125cc	Aprilia	QAT 20	SPA 19	TUR 24	CHN 21	FRA 20	ITA 15	CAT 15	GBR Ret	NED 28	GER 21	CZE 29	RSM 23	POR Ret	JPN 11	AUS 19	MAL Ret	VAL 18			23rd	7
2008	125cc	Derbi	QAT 17	SPA 8	POR 12	CHN 17	FRA 23	ITA 24	CAT 12	GBR 19	NED 16	GER 10	CZE 14	RSM 8	INP 11	JPN 19	AUS Ret	MAL 8	VAL Ret			16th	45
2009	125cc	Derbi	QAT 11	JPN 9	SPA 9	FRA 6	ITA 19	CAT 20	NED 13	GER 9	GBR 8	CZE 18	INP 10	RSM 15	POR 8	AUS 12	MAL 14	VAL 11				13th	70.5
2010	Moto2	Suter	QAT 11	SPA 13	FRA 30	ITA 16	GBR 9	NED 18	CAT Ret	GER 8	CZE 16	INP 11	RSM 8	ARA 7	JPN 12	MAL 8	AUS 13	POR 9	VAL 9			15th	74
2011	Moto2	Suter	QAT 13	SPA 28	POR 4	FRA 8	CAT Ret	GBR 20	NED 18	ITA 11	GER 12	CZE 8	INP 12	RSM 13	ARA 9	JPN 8	AUS 12	MAL 5	VAL 3			8th	94
2012	Moto2	Suter	QAT 18	SPA 8	POR 12	FRA 14	CAT 7	GBR 9	NED 7	GER 10	ITA 8	INP 7	CZE 14	RSM 6	ARA 14	JPN 10	MAL 8	AUS 4	VAL 5			8th	114
2013	Moto2	Suter	QAT 4	AME 4	SPA 8	FRA 4	ITA 10	CAT 8	NED 3	GER 9	INP 5	CZE 13	GBR 5	RSM 5	ARA 13	MAL 5	AUS 6	JPN 8	VAL 10			5th	158
2014	Moto2	Suter	QAT Ret	AME 3	ARG 4	SPA 2	FRA 7	ITA 5	CAT 14	NED 21	GER 1	INP 3	CZE 5	GBR 21	RSM 6	ARA 6	JPN 18	AUS 8	MAL 5	VAL 6		5th	172
2015	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 15	AME 18	ARG 13	SPA 16	FRA 10	ITA 3	CAT 9	NED 12	GER 10	INP 4	CZE 13	GBR 13	RSM 24	ARA Ret	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL WD		17th	62
2016	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 5	ARG 5	AME 4	SPA 8	FRA 13	ITA 10	CAT Ret	NED 9	GER 10	AUT 10	CZE 17	GBR	RSM	ARA 22	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL		12th	71
2017	Moto2	Suter	QAT 11	ARG 14	AME 5	SPA 7	FRA 6	ITA 7	CAT 16	NED 12	GER Ret	CZE Ret	AUT 9	GBR 10	RSM DSQ	ARA 12	JPN 9	AUS 8	MAL WD	VAL 10		12th	88
2018	Moto2	KTM	QAT 15	ARG 8	AME 9	SPA	FRA	ITA 12	CAT 20	NED 14	GER 14	CZE 17	AUT 17	GBR C	RSM 13	ARA 21	THA 16	JPN 13	AUS 6	MAL 14	VAL 11	17th	47
2019	Moto2	MV Agusta	QAT 18	ARG 20	AME 14	SPA 13	FRA Ret	ITA 17	CAT 16	NED 9	GER 20	CZE 21	AUT 17	GBR 18	RSM 18	ARA 19	THA 16	JPN 14	AUS 27	MAL 15	VAL 12	22nd	19
2020	MotoE	Energica	SPA 3	ANC 1	RSM 3	EMI1 1	EMI2 16	FRA1 14	FRA2 4													3rd	97
2020	Moto2	NTS	QAT	SPA	ANC	CZE 21	AUT 12	STY Ret	RSM	EMI	CAT	FRA	ARA	TER	EUR	VAL 20						28th	4
2021	MotoE	Energica	SPA 2	FRA 4	CAT 2	NED 18	AUT 3	RSM1 2	RSM2 12													2nd	93
2022	MotoE	Energica	SPA1 2	SPA2 4	FRA1 2	FRA2 1	ITA1 1	ITA2 2	NED1 1	NED2 2^‡	AUT1 2	AUT2 3	RSM1 2	RSM2 4								1st	227

^‡ Half points awarded as less than two thirds of the race distance (but at least three full laps) was completed.

Suzuka 8 Hours results edit

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