Alex 'The Claw' Ricci

05/10/2026

Round 1 at on the ZX-6R and the S1000RR.

6 races..... 4 races with no gap..... I'm not doing that again. My body hurts. IDK how I managed to keep pace at the end of the day.

I'm going to shift my focus to middleweight and Formula Pacific and leave the 700 classes in the past. Time to go after the #1 plate.

11/18/2025

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!

10/30/2025

Round 5 was a success! The team wrapped up the championships we needed to finish strong in! The Circuit at was a great track to finish the season on! It's going to be one of the most competitive tracks in the next years to come! Full rave report to come in the next few days!

Thanks to everyone that helped out this year!

































Oxymoron Photography 📸

10/25/2025

If you want to watch some great racing this weekend. Oxymoron Photography is live streaming our races! Go give the stream a like and watch us turn some fast laps!

The final round of the 2025 AFM season brings us to Buttonwillow's "The Circuit" for two days of racing action!

10/16/2025

Round 4 recap! I know it's a little late 🤷

It was another race round with the ZX-6R on the dyno again Friday afternoon. Is it really a race weekend if it's not last minute tuning on the bike? Lol

Saturday Qualifying, with a refreshed motor after the troubles at Laguna, the bike felt back to where it should be power wise! Qualified 6th for FP, and on pole for Formula 3.

Formula 3 sprint was pretty uneventful after the red flag restart. Walked away with 🥇
Formula Pacific sprint was a fight to get secure 5th.

And then, the 400ish GP! Everyone talked me into riding old glory again, even tho it's nowhere near what my bike used to be. But gave me a decent bike to be able to ride to the end of the race and finish second on a bike in a class I haven't raced in 3 years. 🥈

Sunday,
Formula 3... I went out on track to make a statement. Lap as many people as I can, and finish with the biggest gap to 2nd place that I can. Most of the race I was living in the 1:58s even getting around lap traffic. Finished 🥇 with a 36 second gap and 15 people lapped 😬

Formula Pacific.
I had a terrible start with a massive wheelie that set me back a little. Had to fight to get back up with and . After that it was on. Managed to make a gap halfway through the race, but lost all grip towards the end of the race and couldn't fight off Grant. Finished 5th

Middleweight Superbike I didn't get the best start again. Had to battle my way through the pack. Made a strong move on Tom Montano into turn 9 on the brakes, then I made a crazy move on Greg and Grant into turn 3 that had and going crazy. Managed to finish 🥉

Huge thanks to the crew coming out and wrenching all weekend so the bike was in tip top shape!

09/11/2025

Today we remember... #911

This was such a special day of the 2021 season! Being able to honor the lives lost on that tragic day with everyone while at New Jersey. I was honored to be a part of it!

07/13/2025

Well, this weekend hasn't gone to plan at all unfortunately. But we are fighting through it!

Huge thanks to AND for lending me his bike to do a motor swap on mine Friday night. A small crash during race one ended my day on lap one, but we are ready to go and fight during race 2 today! Big thanks to the team for getting me back and ready to go!

07/11/2025

Day 1 here at Laguna Seca with the team! Sporting the new Corsair-X with the amazing paint jobs from ! Gregg absolutely killed it with this design!

About to go out for FP1! Stay tuned for updates throughout the weekend!

07/02/2025

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 👀👀😉

04/23/2025

AFM Round 1 Race Report: 🤘

First and foremost, HUGE THANK YOU TO and John Ryti!!! They saved the weekend when they loaned me a spare transmission after I blew mine up a couple laps into the endurance race. They've helped so much the past year with little things, it's a blessing to have them in the paddock!

Started Friday testing out the fresh new suspension that refreshed for the team. The first lap out, I knew it was spot on! Then I got to test the "Cripple Triple" kit and the ZX-477RR, and wow is that fun!

Saturday: Signed up for qualifying, set a quick time in Q2 after fighting traffic all of Q1.
Then the 75 minute endurance race at the end of the day. The (running the ZX-477RR) started on pole, and we finished where we started, up front! 🥇 Jeff started the race with the plan to do 20 laps, or 30ish minutes. Well, he came in early and I went out and did 22 laps. After about 5 laps, 4th gear was completed gone, so I was running the whole track in 2nd and 3rd, not fun.... But we won with a pretty good margin of victory still!

Saturday night we pulled and swapped a "good" transmission in, with a little bit of a struggle.

Sunday: Get the bike back together and running by the time race 1 starts! First race up for me, 600 Superbike. I somehow managed to get the hole shot from the second row of the grid, but lost it quickly as I was running the same rear tire from the endurance, no grip left. Finished 5th 🤷
Second race, Formula Pacific. My main race this year to defend my #4 plate. I battled from 6th up to 4th against a S1000RR and a ZX-10R. The new sticky SC1 F & SCX R from helped with that a lot!
Third race, Formula 3. Started on pole, first time racing and launching the cripple. My starts are usually some of the best, but on the same gearing as the 636, that didn't happen.... But quickly got to the front going into Turn 3 (coincidence 😉) and checked out laying down a 1:55.9 lap time. Apparently very close to the cripple lap record 😬

Also that "new" transmission didn't have 2nd gear engaging properly, so I raced all of Sunday without using 2nd gear. So watch out for round 2! 🤘