The race starts with programming languages competing like normal sea creatures. C is the speedy crab, Python's the squid, Java's the slow squid, and JavaScript's the spiky pufferfish just trying to keep up.
But halfway through, everything goes to hell. The race transforms into runtime errors that completely derail your code. Segmentation Fault takes the lead (classic C behavior), followed by Python's IndentationError (forgot a space, did we?), Java's NullPointerException (as reliable as death and taxes), and JavaScript's "NPM install..." which is still running since you started the race.
And that, friends, is why we call them race conditions. Your code runs fine until it suddenly doesn't, and the winner is always the error you least expected.