The 2023 WorldSBK season was all abou🎶t one rider, Alvaro Bautista. The Ducati rider made it back-to-back titles after winning 27 races.

Bautista was even more dominant than his first championship winning season, but that wasn’♔t to say that others failed to impress.

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Although he didn’t win as♒ many races as he wanted, Razgatlioglu took the title fight down to the final round.

The now BMW rider won six races but was more consistent 🦋than Bautista in the second half of the season, thus allowing him to stay in contention despite theꦆ huge difference in win totals. 

2023 was somewhat of a down year for Jonathan Rea, as the sꩵix-time world champion won just once at Most.

Axel Bassani was the top Independent rider as h📖e got the better of impressive rookie Danilo Peౠtrucci.

Other rookies who had stand out performances were the GRT Yamaha duo o♌f Dominique Aegerter and Remy Gardner.

2023 was again a disappointing seas🃏on for Honda and BMW, as neither manuꦛfacturer got closer to winning races.

Now the mo💯ment you have been waiting for, here are the 2023 WorldS💜BK rider grades…

Alvaro Bautista - A+

Best result - 1st (27 times)

Toprak Razgatlioglu - A

Best result - 1st (6 times)

Jonathan Rea - B-

Best result - 1st (1 time)

Andrea Locatelli - B

Best result - 2nd (1 time)

Michael Ruben Rinaldi - B-

Best result - 1st (1 time)

Axel Bassani - B-

Best result - 2nd (1 time)

Danilo Petrucci - B

Best result - 2nd (1 time)

Dominque Aegerter - B-

Best result - 2nd (1 time)

Remy Gardner - C+

Best result - 4th (2 times)

Xavi Vierge - C

Best result - 3rd (1 time)

Alex Lowes - C

Best result - 3rd (1 time) 

Garrett Gerloff - B-

Best result - 4th (3 times)

Iker Lecuona - C-

Best result - 4th (1 time)

Scott Redding - C-

Best result - 4th (2 times)

Phillip Oettl - C

Best result - 5th (1 time)

Loris Baz - D

Best result - 7th (2 times) 

Michael Van Der Mark (Injury affected) - C

Best result - 7th (2 times)

Lorenzo Baldassarri - D

Best result - 12th (2 times) 

Bradley Ray - D+

Best result - 12th (2 times)

Hafish Syahrin - D- 

Best result - 14th (2 times)

Oliver Konig - D-

Best result - 16th (2 times)

Eric Granado (Injury affected) - E

Best result - 16th (1 time)