Best MotoGP 2021 riders

88 ELO points separate Valentino Rossi from Marc Marquez at the top of the MotoGP 2021 ranking, after 3333 duels.

Fabio Quartararo leads with 1491 ELO points, winning 83% of his 52 duels. Valentino Rossi follows at 1451 points, but the 88-point gap to Marc Marquez in third place marks the sharpest divide in the top rankings. Marquez sits at 1363 points, with Francesco Bagnaia close behind at 1348 after 88 duels. The podium reflects both championship performance and enduring popularity: Rossi's second place in a season where he finished 19th in the standings shows the community's affection for the veteran rider in his final year. Jack Miller completes the top 5 at 1315 points with a 56% win rate. At the bottom, Garrett Gerloff holds 30th position with 977 ELO points and a 24% win rate over 46 duels, while Stefan Bradl ranks 29th at 1008 points with a 28% win rate.

The ranking draws from 3333 duels involving 36 players across 30 contenders from the season. The span from Quartararo's 1491 points down to Gerloff's 977 captures the full range of voter preferences across the grid. The data was updated on 12 October 2026. VAINKEURZ invites you to vote in head-to-head matchups and shape this ranking with your own picks from the season.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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