Dominique Aegerter will join Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) for a two-rider Kawasaki assault on the 2026 FIM Supersport World Championship, with each rider competing on the podium-capable Ninja ZX-6R 636.
Aegerter’s name is already legendary in the WorldSSP paddock, as he was a double World Champion in this class before embarking on a three-year WorldSBK career. In all, Dominique secured 27 WorldSSP race wins from 44 starts, taking the title in consecutive seasons from 2021 to 2022.
In addition to his WorldSSP achievements, he was crowned 2022 MotoE champion inside the MotoGP paddock, and scored two podiums during his recent WorldSBK seasons. His versatility is such that he has also taken a podium finish in the EWC Championship, as a runner-up at the famous Suzuka 8 Hours in 2015.
Born in Rohrbach in Switzerland in 1990, Dominique began his career racing in the 125cc class in the German IDM Championship – at only 14 years of age. He started racing in the 125GP class in 2006, and in 2010 he moved to the then-new Moto2 category. Dominique secured a race win inside the middleweight four-stroke GP class, at the Sachsenring in 2014, and took another six Moto2 podiums.
Moving into production-derived racing full-time in the 2021 season, Aegerter was a WorldSSP sensation from the start. He is now approaching the 2026 ‘Next Generation’ WorldSSP championship with even more experience than he had during his two championship-winning years. He will be equipped with a Ninja ZX-6R 636 that has already taken two podiums in its first year of WorldSSP competition, in the skilled hands of ‘rookie’ WorldSSP rider, Jeremy Alcoba.
The addition of Aegerter to the returning Alcoba not only doubles the scale of the Kawasaki WorldSSP Team for 2026, but provides a classic racing ‘hybrid’ rider line-up of one talented young competitor with success already under his belt, and one well-proven champion setting out on an ambitious new adventure inside a known racing landscape.
Dominique Aegerter, stated: “I’m really pleased to be part of the Kawasaki WorldSSP Team. When I met with Manuel Puccetti and Steve Guttridge, I immediately realised it would be the right choice because they share the same ambition as me, which is to get Kawasaki back on top. The recent results of the ZX-6R 636 demonstrate this bike’s potential. I’m happy to return to WorldSSP, a category in which I’ve scored strong results in the past, with two world titles and many race wins. I know that Manuel Puccetti’s team knows how to win races and titles, too. I can’t wait to get on my new bike, get to know my new technical team and wear green! My thanks go to Kawasaki of course, but also to my brother, who took care of all the bureaucracy and the contracts, and to all our sponsors for making this possible, of course.”
Manuel Puccetti, Kawasaki WorldSSP Team Principal, stated: “We’re proud and honoured to be able to welcome Aegerter to our team, a three-time World Champion who is a sure thing in WorldSSP. We’re certain that we can fight for the World Title with him because Dominique is a giant of the category. We’ll do our best to give him everything he needs to express his full potential and go all out for the title. We’ll be on track for our first tests with him in late November, at Jerez.”
Steve Guttridge, Kawasaki Europe Race Planning Manager, stated: “Welcoming Dominique Aegerter to our official Kawasaki WorldSSP Team for the 2026 season sends a great signal out regarding Kawasaki’s commitment to racing at the highest level. ‘Domi’ is a talented competitor and a proven Champion of the middleweight category inside the WorldSBK paddock. We decided to enter our new Ninja ZX-6R 636 this season a little cautiously, with the relevant performance balancing rules in place. We did this to consider – due to the greatly varied engine capacities and configurations of our competitors – what we needed to be able to fight against them in the races. This was not easy, but with Jeremy Alcoba doing a great job alongside his team and technical crew on a solo rider basis, we can now build on all that we have learned. We will target many more green podiums again next season, with a formidable two-rider team back on the grid.”
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