The announcement from SPEEDWEEK.com has already come true: Dominique Aegerter, Supersport World Champion, Supersport World Championship leader and new MotoE World Cup winner, will be testing for Suzuki Ecstar tomorrow.
The fact that Joan Mir, the MotoGP World Champion on Suzuki in 2020, injured his right ankle in a crash on the first lap of the Austrian GP and was then prescribed 15 days of rest by the doctor, was the Japanese test driver Watanabe on the works in Misano -Suzuki set. However, the superbike and long-distance racer was clearly too slow.
That’s why Suzuki team manager Livio Suppo came up with the idea of getting the Suzuki team to talk by inviting Domi Aegerter to test. “It’s a reward for his MotoE championship title,” Suppo told SPEEDWEEK.com.
However, the 31-year-old Aegerter must not hope for a late entry into the MotoGP World Championship. Because Suzuki withdraws from the premier class at the end of the season.
It remains to be seen whether the Swiss will do himself a favor with this test for his future. “We don’t know anything about Aegerter’s MotoGP testing,” SPEEDWEEK.com was told by Yamaha Motor Racing executives today.
Aegerter drives the second season for the Dutch ten-Kate-Yamaha team in the Supersport World Championship. And he is hoping for a Superbike World Championship contract with Yamaha Europe for the 2023 season. He could take the place of Garrett Gerloff, who is moving to BMW, with the Giansanti Yamaha team.