Alex 'The Claw' Ricci

Well the season is over and what a heel of a year it was!

Round 5, The Circuit!

A few of us boyz decided to do Friday practice to get better acquainted with the new track. We all got up to speed very quickly and ready to take on the weekend!

Saturday, Formula Pacific Sprint. I needed to finish at least 5th to secure a top 5 plate for next year, either 4 or 5. I pushed as best I could but managed to finish in 6th place, but since one of the riders ahead was reciprocity, I still got 5th place points!

Instructor cup! This was a for fun race. I went out to push the first couple laps to see if I could beat Scott on that damn BMW of his, but that bike has too much straight line speed. So I towed around the whole race 😉

Championship Sunday!

Formula 3, I didn't race it because I had the championship locked up already. FORMULA 3 CHAMPION 🏆

Formula Pacific, my plan was to just beat and I had the 4 plate again. But I just didn't have the pace to stick with him, so all I needed to do was finish the race, and I have the 5 plate for next year! Your 2026 AFM #5 Plate!!!

Middleweight Superbike, all I needed to do was finish and I secure 3rd in this championship. This was one hell of a race between me, , and . I followed them for 3 laps before I made my move on them into turn 1 and turn 2. The last lap I almost lost it going through turn 4, chattering and sliding the front, and then swapping positions with Rue going into turn 8, and then swapping back before the last apex. It was a drag race out of the corner for 2nd place. Finished 2nd and secured 3rd in the championship! 🥉

I definitely could not have done as well this season if it weren't for everyone that helped me this year!

Round 3:

Well, it was another weekend spent battling the wind and bike issues. Saturday started out fine with minimal issues during qualifying. Formula 3 superpole was good, Qualified on Pole, good start and passed on the inside going into turn 3 for the lead and kept it the whole race. P1. 🥇

FP superpole: Qualified 7th, battled for a bit, but finished 9th with the bike overheating again.

After the race, run back to and grab the spare thermostat and temp sensor and throw it on the bike Saturday night.

Sunday: Warmup, bike seems to be running great! Nice and cool. But for Formula 3, the bike got up to temp (180°F) then continued to drop the entire race down to below reading temp (under 100°F)..... Weird. But managed to finish P1 with a 10 second gap! 🥇

Formula Pacific.... Bike warms up, then drops down under 100° again. This time, after 6 laps, it starts losing power and sputtering out of the corners. By lap 10 it was unrideable and I feared for the worst.

Luckily was out there and he starting tearing the bike apart and found the issue. A wire backed out of the temp sensor plug and was giving false readings and going into the startup/cold idle map. Taylor fixed it just in time to go out for Middlewight superbike!

Bike ran fantastic after the motor work and no issues! Finished 7th in superbike with a worn out sc1 set of Pirelli tires!

Huge thanks to everyone that has helped this season!

And check out the start wheelies from me, , and 👀👀😉