On paper, every championship title is worth the same - that's kind of the whole point. But when it comes to legacy points, Toprak Razgatlioglu delivering BMW its first-ever World Superbike crown is worth two or three 'ordinary' title triumphs.
A ride to second in the opening race of the Jerez finale officially made Razgatlioglu a two-time WSBK champion with two races to spare. It was comfortable in the end - it will have been infinitely more comfortable still if not for a bad crash in Magny-Cours practice that, through an impact with the wall, sidelined Razgatlioglu for one sixth of the season's races due to a pneumothorax injury.
With all the respect to his nearest rival, breakout rookie Nicolo Bulega, it will have been a travesty had the title slipped away from Razgatlioglu - but once he was back on the bike it never looked anything like slipping away.
When actually getting to start the races, he has been basically pitch-perfect. Remarkably for a rider famed for his 'daredevil' style built around applying off-the-chart brake pressure, he had recorded all of one DNF all season - due to an expired engine at Phillip Island rather than a crash.
By itself, it's a great campaign. WSBK, of course, has seen no shortage of great campaigns in recent years - and while the 13 consecutive wins Razgatlioglu reeled off mid-season is a series record, his fellow champions Alvaro Bautista and Jonathan Rea have had 11-win streaks of their own in recent years.
In that sense, Razgatlioglu is Novak Djokovic - a member of a clear 'big three' in his field, running rampant once his two rivals had aged out of their prime (albeit with a much bigger age gap in Razgatlioglu's case).
In another sense, though - and this is what makes this title so special - he is Valentino Rossi.
Amid a run of three titles for Honda between 2001 and 2003, Rossi felt undervalued by his employer, felt the impetus to prove that it was him, not the bike, making the difference.
In switching to Yamaha and winning a title there immediately, he had - single-handedly - changed the landscape of MotoGP. He was MotoGP.
It's not a one-to-one comparison because Razgatlioglu did not leave Yamaha at its peak, off the back of a World Superbike title - although he got closer than he should have, by rights in 2023 - yet the parallel is clear.
Razgatlioglu felt spurned and undervalued by his previous employer and, in leaving it, hand-delivered a title to a ready and willing rival.
Post-Rossi Honda at least won a handful of MotoGP races and the constructors' title in the season after his exit. Post-Razgatlioglu Yamaha is yet to win.
In having left Yamaha for BMW, Razgatlioglu taking the title right away means what it meant for Rossi. Razgatlioglu is World Superbikes right now.
"When I signed with BMW, everyone said 'your career is finished'," he gloated upon celebrating the title.
"Now we are world champions. Everyone has understood my potential on the bike - and everyone has understood BMW is a winning bike."
The full extent of Razgatlioglu's sporting achievement can and will be debated. It would be strange, of course, not to mention that WSBK revised its weight rules for 2024 in a move widely regarded as being aimed at curbing the 60kg Bautista's dominance.
Then there's the matter of Razgatlioglu's sternest opposition coming from a rookie, though it's a two-sided coin - as it is Razgatlioglu who has made Bulega look like just a great rookie and not the new face of WSBK.
And then there's the question of BMW being a much better proposition on track now than it was when Razgatlioglu signed up for it, in a move you would be forgiven at the time for dismissing as paycheck-chasing. The BMW had not won a race in the dry for over a decade by the time Razgatlioglu joined.
Except, well... it still hasn't in anyone else's hands.
The perception in the World Superbike paddock is that the big-spending, well-oiled BMW machine of now is clearly a title-calibre proposition, boosted by a concession system that has helped it shortcut its way to glory and elite test riders in Sylvain Guintoli and Bradley Smith.
Clearly, BMW - and its factory team Shaun Muir Racing - has put in a big effort here that goes beyond simply hiring Razgatlioglu and cashing in on a gimme title. But if Razgatlioglu is simply the best rider winning on already the best bike, that would perhaps make it all a bit less special.
The thing is though, stablemates Michael van der Mark and Garrett Gerloff have been maybe half a step to a step better than their 2023 selves. There is progress - but there is nothing in their results to indicate a quantum leap in the BMW M10000RR's competitiveness that's independent of the Razgatlioglu effect.
Scott Redding, the fourth member of the BMW rider quartet, has looked downright rough - and while BMW Redding is clearly not the best version of Redding, it has been quite jarring to hear the 31-year-old, an accomplished rider in MotoGP and a genuine standout in the school of hard knocks that is Moto2, going as far as to say that from what he's seen now that they're in the same camp Razgatlioglu is simply more talented.
Right now Razgatlioglu towers above all of them, not just Redding. At 28, he could well choose to do that for many more years - or chase that MotoGP dream, which feels as remote as ever due to his age and yet still plausible due to the narrative power of his second WSBK crown.
But that's a matter for later - ditto for the matter of BMW's potential MotoGP entry. For now, let's bask in the outrageousness of what's transpired, because it feels like something that just doesn't happen in modern top-level bike racing.
As important as machinery tends to be, a single rider move can be a big change for the competitive picture. But Razgatlioglu, and his wily manager Kenan Sofuoglu and long-time crew chief Phil Marron (and fellow crew members) as an extension, didn't change WSBK's competitive picture - they tore it up and drew a new one on an empty canvas.
In doing so, they gave the series its own iconic Rossi 2004 moment.
