🇺🇸 Alex Kirby

Alex Kirby is a retired American racing driver with a Racer Rating of 2,829, placing him in the competitive amateur band; this level describes quick club and regional racers who compete against professionals but typically finish outside the points. Kirby's three-season career spanned 2022 to 2024 across sportscar endurance racing and single-seaters, accumulating 27 starts without a victory. He held an FIA Silver categorisation, denoting a professional-level driver in the endurance paddock, usually early in their career; within that context he was competitive enough to score five podiums in the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge.[1]

Kirby's record reflects a mid-field competitive level within his fields. His average finishing position of P7.3 across all classified starts masks a consistent gap to the stronger drivers he raced against. He met established professionals including former champions such as Raoul Hyman, Ryan Yardley, and Jason Alder, and lost every head-to-head encounter with each of them across double-digit shared races. Against Brian Thienes, an FIA Bronze amateur, Kirby held a level 7-7 record over 14 races, suggesting comparable speed at that tier. His occasional wins over established drivers such as Cody Ware occurred in isolation; his pattern against the field shows him outpaced by stronger competitors. Most of his racing came through Performance Tech Motorsports, a competitive sportscar team that has fielded faster drivers and achieved significant wins in the IMSA series.[2]

Kirby's single-seater venture in Formula Regional Americas during 2022 yielded no podiums across 12 starts, and his most recent racing came in January 2023 with a 60th-place finish in the IMSA WeatherTech championship before he retired from racing.