History

The team was born in 1996 when Manuel Puccetti, at the age of 18, took his first steps in sports competitions. Driven by his family’s passion for racing, he began to race in the 125 SP regional championships, followed only by his parents and friends.

Since then, the team has come a long way, and after competing for years in the Italian championship, it moved to the European Stock 600 championship, where it won three titles with riders Marco Faccani, Toprak Razgatlioglu, and Franco Morbidelli. It then moved to the Supersport World Championship and became a two-time world champion with rider Kenan Sofuoglu. Since 2017, the team has also competed in the Superbike World Championship, and since 2025, it has been an official Kawasaki team for both Supersport and Superbike.

Dominique Aegerter joins the Kawasaki WorldSSP Team at the perfect time, when the new ZX-6R 636, which debuted with two podiums in the world championship in 2025, has achieved excellent competitiveness and is poised to achieve prestigious results thanks to the talent and experience of the Swiss rider.

Manuel Puccetti, Kawasaki WorldSSP Team Principal

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

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.