Patrick Ahmorh

Patrick Ahmorh is one of the Ghost Race Championship drivers who in 5008 will be his second year at the pinnacle of hypersonic motorsport. Despite a low relevance in the races due to inconsistent results, Patrick is a constant presence in the midfield, where he can be seen fighting against several drivers, such as Nathan Ashton, Fred Hornish, Hannah Fischer, etc. His best result in 5008 (the year Ghost Race Championship 2 takes place) was a 3rd place right at the start of the season in Tagoyanu City's The Chase.

His machine, the Feral Nychterida, is one of the machines that draw the most attention in terms of painting, as in addition to being asymmetrical to one side of the other, each color used in the painting uses a different material, with the darkest being the most matte and the lighter being the more chromed. The machine also bears the symbols of Mizengyun, an anti-pacifist community whose symbol is banned in the Middle East. Mizengyun's symbol is also seen painted on Patrick's face.

## **Personal life**

Patrick Ahmorh, despite living in the same condo as his friends, lives alone at Megalopolis, home to the Downtown Megalopolis races. At least once every month, Patrick visits his father, Jacob Ahmorh, an elderly man who lives in the suburban areas of Megalopolis. Patrick's mother, Sarah Ahmorh, had passed away when Patrick was a child at the age of 6. She was only 39 and died due to a cancer.

Despite not having too many friends, Patrick has a few of it. Due to Patrick's nature of being a little bit introvert, he doesn't exactly care about how many friends does he have. However, Patrick does have a best friend: Robert Gorsky, an african-american that has incredible ability at graphical design. Robert, alongside his girlfriend Ayanna, can sometimes be seen at the GRC paddock with Patrick Ahmorh as well.

Patrick Ahmorh is also single and never had any interest nor will in dating, as he prefers to live a more lonely life rather than having someone "dragging him down", despite having his friends behind his back, supporting him regardless of Patrick being an ambassador to the Mizengyun community. Robert Gorsky, Patrick's best friend, knows the Mizengyun community from Patrick and he understands and respect Patrick's place as a mizengyunist ambassador, although Robert does not have full and exact knowledge about the Mizengyun community, due to how unpopular this community is nowadays despite their controversial beginnings.

## **Supports**

Despite Patrick Ahmorh considering himself as an introvert, he often shows major support to drivers like Benny Firmman and David Atom, whose drivers are gay and bissexual respectively. But the same isn't quite the case for Molly Goddess, despite she being lesbian.

The reasons why Patrick Ahmorh shows major and endless support to these people is simple: Mizengyunist people are forced to raise awareness and show their support to their LGBTQ+ community regardless of their religion, nationality, preference, personality, etc. Mizengyunists are also strictly forbidden to practice any homophobic or LGBTphobic behavior, and they are forced to show loyalty or empathy to LGBT people, except if that person is evil.

## **Sponsorship with Hammasnez**

Since his debut in 5007, Patrick Ahmorh has signed a multi-year deal with menswear company Hammasnez, despite Hammasnez's unfamiliarity with Patrick's mizengyunist personality. The company has been also releasing special Patrick Ahmorh sportswear since 5008, the year Ghost Race Championship 2 takes place.

Patrick Ahmorh has also done some Hammasnez advertisements and TV commercials, and it is from there that he has gained popularity outside of the sport, due to Hammasnez's gigantic fame and reputation.

## **First days as a driver**

Patrick Ahmorh arrived in motorsport starting with Cyber ​​Racers by RTW in 5006, where already that year he achieved a result that surprisingly would give him a seat in Ghost Race Championship. But there were catches: Patrick didn't exactly adapt to Cyber ​​Racers' hovercars, as he was new not only to Cyber ​​Racers but to the sport as a whole, there was zero guarantee that he would move up to Ghost Race Championship the very next year in 5007. But if Patrick was to listen to his criticisms for being totally unfamiliar with the sport, he was proven wrong when he was runner-up to Cyber ​​Racers in 5006, and that for the next year, he would go straight to Ghost Race Championship, a very unusual thing to do for someone who was runner-up in a motorsport category that has zero connection to the pinnacle of hypersonic motorsport that is Ghost Race Championship.

In December 5006, Patrick Ahmorh broke his silence and showed everyone his machine for the 5007 Ghost Race Championship season onwards. Sponsored by Hammasnez, a menswear company, Feral Nychterida caught the attention of many who followed the highly anticipated launch. But it was from there that a controversy arose that will be summarized in "Controversies" below.

## **Controversies**

**Accusations of promoting policies**

Patrick Ahmorh's early days in Ghost Race Championship were incredibly turbulent. His first setback was that several people, whilst delighted with the Feral Nychterida, pointed out that the driver intended to race in Ghost Race Championship to promote anti-pacifist policies, saying that Mizengyun's symbolism means nothing but chaos and rage. Patrick Ahmorh, who is one of the few people in the world who supports the Mizengyun community, explained that the exposure of the Mizengyun symbol is just to show his personality, as well as several other Ghost Race Championship drivers, who instead of racing with a livery based on sponsors, it's simply based on the personality of the drivers, which is the case with Patrick Ahmorh.

Just to give you an idea, Ghost Race Championship, since the time of Haviv International, had prohibited the exhibition of symbols that disrespect the image of Haviv International, which at the time was the master sponsor of the category, and that the Parvoj war had already happened, which resulted in the banning of this community in the Middle East, with the exception of Gomezal, the only Spanish country in the Middle East.  But due to Ghost Race Championship having already broken its ties with Haviv International after it was accused of manufacturing superweapons for terrorist attacks, the category returned to allow the exhibition of symbols that are used for protests and among others, but what worried Ghost Race Championship fans when Patrick Ahmorh introduced his machine, is that other Arab companies from the Middle East might come to Ghost Race Championship just to punish Patrick Ahmorh for his support of the Mizengyun community, and possibly assassinate him, as the exposure of the Mizengyun symbol in the Middle East (except Gomezal) results in a death sentence. Ghost Race Championship, which would have two races in the Middle East, had to immediately take away both Al-Hamad Desert races that would debut on the calendar for 5007 onwards, otherwise Patrick Ahmorh would be at great risk of being outlawed and wanted by the armed forces of several anti-Mizengyun countries in the Middle East. All of this was enough for the category to have two new venues on the calendar: Khamis Lagoon and Gadget Premise; both venues were added as last-minute changes to the season's calendar, as well as making logistics way more difficult.

> *"If you want to kill me just because I support a community, try harder. But I'm too young to die. I can still send my regards, but only if they feel welcome. I won't be listening to these people anyway, they can target me for a reason, but I'm here to race and I'm here to stay, whether they like it or not."*
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- Patrick Ahmorh.

**Race incidents**

5007, despite being Patrick Ahmorh's rookie year, hasn't been going easy. Patrick, despite going on the podium only once that year, already in the second race of the year, had been suffering too much with the performance of his Feral Nychterida. The driver claimed that the machine simply took too long to strafe, causing the machine to hit the guardrails more easily. The lack of familiarity with Ghost Race Championship was also a key factor for the turbulent season, which even made the driver very poorly appreciated and disrespected by fans of the category, which did not sit well with him.

His first incident was that the driver hindered a fast lap by Eva Perceptrona in Vostok Quasar's Almije Alley during free practice that week, where the driver from Vostok was irritated by the way Patrick blocked her. At the end of that session, Eva Perceptrona went to Patrick Ahmorh's garage to take satisfaction from him, saying that he drove like a "r\*\*\*\*\*" and that he had no place in the sport. This was enough for Eva Perceptrona to have a 15-place grid penalty for the starting grid on race day, since the sporting regulations of Ghost Race Championship prohibit the presence of drivers in garages that do not belong to them, which Eva Perceptrona did, she went into Patrick Ahmorh's garage and she got penalized for it. But there was time for one more controversy involving Patrick Ahmorh later that weekend. After post-race inspection, it was confirmed that Patrick Ahmorh was disqualified from that race for having engine friction rates below the minimum limit. This all contributed to Patrick Ahmorh being booed and criticized on social media, but instead of being silent, Patrick Ahmorh debated and asked Ghost Race Championship fans to "shut the f\*\*\* up", and that he had, that same week, lost his maternal grandfather Ethan, due to a neurological disease (same disease that attacks Lance Huawys), and that Patrick was emotionally shaken literally the entire week.

> *"Shut the f\*\*\* up. For f\*\*\*'s sake, you act like 5 year olds crying. I already lost a family member of mine this week and all you do to me is throw more money, politics and criticize me even more? To someone who has been emotionally unstable all week? It makes you want to shoot you all in rage. You think we're all perfect and that we never make mistakes. If there's one thing your parents have explained to you, it's that making mistakes is normal. Seriously. The lack of maturity of our fans disgusts me. You all gotta have to f\*\*\* off."*
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- Patrick Ahmorh debating on his ThyWilder profile.

All this contributed to his performance plummeting during the season, but in the final meters of the championship, Patrick Ahmorh did his best and scored 16 more runs in the Top 10, which indicated that he had got the hang of it, right? Not quite.

Yet another Patrick Ahmorh controversy that season was in Downtown Megalopolis' Mundane Highway. Remember when Patrick Ahmorh was disqualified from Vostok Quasar's Almije Alley race for having his Feral Nychterida with its engine friction rates below the minimum limit? Because Patrick pointed out the case as a possible sabotage on his machine, saying that someone outside had adjusted his Feral Nychterida with settings that had not been adjusted by his mechanics. Remembering that the Goddesses would still come in Ghost Race Championship. The case reverberated in ThyWilder, with many fans of the category calling Patrick Ahmorh a crybaby and a loser.  The driver once again debated, saying he would threaten to kill someone if he was the target of criticism again. All of Patrick's lack of maturity had brought the attention of Ghost Race Championship, which placed a 2-race ban on the driver in suspensive effect. Patrick was still able to race at the Downtown Megalopolis that week, but if one more incident occur, he would be out of the next two races. But the dissatisfied Patrick didn't hesitate and said in an interview that ThyWilder is a social network of straight up anarchy, where many people around the world "do their best to suffer from RND", and who try to kill themselves over the internet. When the interview surfaced, ThyWilder disabled Patrick Ahmorh's account, saying it harmed not only ThyWilder's image but his own as well.

But regarding the possible sabotage, the Ghost Race Championship committee started an extensive investigation, which investigation proved that there was indeed sabotage on Patrick Ahmorh's Feral Nychterida. A man, who appeared not to be from security at the Almije Alley track, managed, according to the security cameras that filmed the scene, to enter Patrick Ahmorh's garage and try to sabotage the machine, to cause Patrick to be disqualified after the race. The man was able to enter Patrick Ahmorh's garage as there were very few security personnel on duty, and that he had entered the garage without anyone noticing. The man was not identified, but thanks to the darkness that was on the track at that moment, it was possible to see that his eyes glowed red, which indicated that whose man is very likely to be a Hybrid. In the race, Patrick had been complaining about the behavior of his Feral Nychterida, that the machine was acting as if it were "on board in a bobsled", and that he hadn't had such complaints in previous sessions that same weekend. When the results of the investigation came to light, many people realized that Patrick Ahmorh was actually being honest, and that he didn't want to show people anything bad. This all contributed to Patrick Ahmorh's disqualification in the Almije Alley race being undone, and that his points that were scored in that race would all be returned. This made Patrick Ahmorh feel empowered, which made him mature quickly and start to perform more, all of which was enough for Gadget Premise, Patrick Ahmorh to come fourth in that race. ThyWilder, which disabled Patrick Ahmorh's account, had reenabled it, but Patrick simply did not want to use social networks anymore and deleted his account for good instead of having his access recovered. Patrick Ahmorh fanpages are still a thing in ThyWilder, though.

**Xenophobia accusations**

On January 8, 5008, days before the relaunch of his Feral Nychterida, Patrick Ahmorh was asked where he went for the New Year's break. His response was controversial.

> *"I went alone to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, that's better than wasting time in places where there are only demons who abuse human rights and have hatred against woman and gay people"*
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This didn't go over well with Arab fans of the category.  But unlike the other controversies Patrick Ahmorh has been directly or indirectly involved in, the xenophobia scandal quickly fell by the wayside for literally everyone. Patrick accumulated another podium in 5008, an early 3rd place at the start of the season at Tagoyanu City's The Chase.

## **Trivia**

* Patrick Ahmorh is the only Ghost Race Championship 2 driver who races with a painted face, although the same applies to Thomas Short and Craig Gotthehausen, who only race at Rocket Field. Fun fact: Both Patrick Ahmorh and Thomas Short have the same height which is 1.75m.
* His machine, the Feral Nychterida, is one of the Ghost Race Championship 2 machines that have an asymmetrical paintjob (disregarding decals such as machine number and sponsor logos).
* In his first concepts, Patrick Ahmorh was seen as one of the evil characters in Ghost Race Championship 2, but he had that role changed and became a neutral character.
* The term "Nychterida", which comes from Patrick Ahmorh's machine, is to be "Nychterída", as this is actually the Greek translation of "Bat", or "Baton", which would explain the asymmetry of his painting.
* Patrick Ahmorh's painted face (discounting the design - just the fact that it's painted) is a reference to the character Nitro Venderhoss from the 2008 film Speed ​​Racer, whose character was played by Joe Mazza.
* The term "Mizengyun", according to the philosophy of this symbol, means "Infinity in the ambition to fight like a demon". It is unknown what the intention behind this phrase is.