Ten Kate Racing is a motorcycle racing team competing in World Supersport with 2022 rider Dominique Aegerter. They previously competed in the Superbike World Championship with 2019 rider Loris Baz, and previously with Gulf Althea Racing BMW Motorrad. The re-built team participated in a part-season from June. Ten Kate had the official backing of Honda for 18 years until late 2018, being their presence in both World Superbikes and World Supersport series, with reports of Honda's sudden withdrawal causing team bankruptcy. Ten Kate raced a team as the Red Bull Honda World Superbike Team, a squad sponsored by Red Bull, using Honda superbike motorcycles in the Superbike World Championship. History Foundation Gerrit ten Kate was a full-time motocross rider, who like many undertook his own mechanics. After semi-retirement from his own career, he guided his nephew Ronald ten Kate through regional motocross series to fourth place in the Dutch national championship. Having founded a workshop undertaking mechanics for other riders during his career, it was noticed that Ronald's bike was fast, which resulted in Gerrit expanding his workshop to the point where he was selling and maintaining 50/60 bikes per annum. In 1993, Gerrit gave up his own motocross activities to concentrate on developing his motorcycle dealership Ten Kate Motorcycles in Nieuwleusen, near Zwolle in the north of the Netherlands. Soon after foundation, local road racing rider Harry van Beek came to the showroom looking for help, so Gerrit fixed it. Van Beek got a wildcard entry in the European Superstock round at Hockenheim, where he found he had the fastest bike. As a result, from 1994 Ten Kate entered road racing maintenance. Road Racing From 1995, the team entered its own team in regional Dutch road racing. Managed by Ronald ten Kate, each season Ten Kate Racing has increased in scope and size, and now takes a team of 28 - including technicians, administrative staff and four riders - to contest the World Superbike and Supersport champ: The team first entered the Supersport World Championship full-time in , using Honda CBR600F4i motorcycles. In Ten Kate rider Fabien Foret won the championship, Honda's first in Supersport. The team went on to win all of the last six Supersport World Championships using the Honda CBR600RR. In Chris Vermeulen won the title, followed by Karl Muggeridge in , Sébastien Charpentier in , who retained his title in , the first rider ever