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Alvaro Bautista won the 2022 World Superbike Championship after a dominant season in which he won 12 races and finished on the podium in 24 of the 26 races. He finished 124 points ahead of his nearest rival, Toprak Razgatlioglu, who won the championship in 2021. Bautista is the first Spanish rider to win the World Superbike Championship since Carlos Checa in 2011.