For the past ten years, every Superbike World Championship crown has been worn by either Jonathan Rea, Toprak Razgatlioglu, or Alvaro Bautista. But with Toprak moving to MotoGP to compete for the Pramac Yamaha team in 2026, and Bautista and Rea currently without a seat for the 2026 WSBK season, what’s left to watch?
Jonathan Rea, who collected six consecutive titles with Kawasaki starting in 2015, was proceeded by Toprak Razgatlioglu, who took home the title for Yamaha in 2021. Then, a pair of victories followed for Alvaro Bautista with Ducati in 2022 and 2023. Last year’s title was won, again, by Toprak, who had moved to BMW, the only rider to collect two championships with two different manufacturers.
Before these three, the WorldSBK was had a scattered assortment of winning riders, to include Tom Sykes who brought the title back to Kawasaki in 2013, Carl Fogarty who holds the third highest number of race wins (59) behind Jonathan Rea and Álvaro Bautista, and Colin Edwards a two-time World Superbike champion who went on to compete in MotoGP, among others.
