Hello, had an interesting race with PASM this evening, I went into the race with 0 practice laps, elected to go with the Lancer IX tuned (a reccomendation from PASM himself) We commenced the race and I was well off the pace, dropped down to 3.5-4 secs behind PASM pretty quickly, lap 3 or 4 I couldn't pass an unknown successfully (well I did, but then he would dive into the following corner like a maniac in an attempt to regain the position, shunting me in the sand on 2 occasions) so when i finally passed him I was 7 seconds behind, with only 4 laps to go, feeling as If the race was over, I still drove solidly, gaining just under half a tenth lap 7 or 8, but It wasn't enough and on the start of lap 8 or 9, decided to stop racing. I then voiced my concerns to PASM via the text chat facility, stating that I felt that my race was destroyed by the unknowner, and that If it were just us 2, the race result would be unclear, at the time of the run in with the unkowner, I was only 3.5 seconds off, I calculated that I could have made up 2.5-3 secs from then on to catch PASM's slip stream before the end If there was no incident with the unknowner, he kindly agreed with me and we agreed to race another one.
The next race was absolutely neck and neck for the first 8 laps, I pitted on lap 8 and had a solid out lap, I was around 3.5 secs off when PASM pitted at the end of lap 9, I leap frogged PASM in the pits and when he regoined the race, he was just outside slip stream distance, that same distance/margine remained for the last lap and I won by around 1/1.5 seconds, I very satisfying victory. I then texted PASM and proposed that we race another race, essentially returning the favour to PASM for allowing a race 2.
Race 3 I was very quick and hassling PASM like a bad smell, at the end of lap 3 I decided to TRY and pit lol, the attempt failed spectacularly as I went head first into the pit entry wall, It was an absolutely incredible mistake which left me 7.5 seconds off the pace when I rejoined the race, I persisted and the gap was slowly decreasing as PASM pitted lap 5 or 6, gap now was 3.5 seconds, a further 2 laps later the gap was 2.4 seconds, and on lap 8 i pushed to hard on the first corner and went into the sand, instantly, switched off the PS3, probably 0.8 second reaction time from the moment i realised I had entered the sand to the moment my finger made contact with the off button on the PS3 console, haha. So i guess the result is a victory to PASM, but I might have to talk to him again to see If he wants another race, because theoretically, we had 2 clean unaffected races, and after those 2 races, the result is 1-1, so it is an interesting descision, no one has really won the race in my opinion, maybe I went down 1.5-1. Anyways, what do you think?
Another tough competitor falls at your hands 
Anyways, good luck in the next round bro...may the force be with you 
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I'm not sure what you were expecting if you happened to lose the 3rd race, which you did. In my eyes that's basically what tells the story of who deserves to advance and who does not. Not only that, you basically hung up your hat by logging off, not finishing the race and failing to notify PASM of what happened. What's up with that? That alone is enough to give the nod to PASM IMO...
