It is not about the one that start the race but he that finish the race.
People are not concern about your working process but the result. It is to him who wins the race, reward or award is given to.

I was playing a car race game yesterday night. And I had to race one on one with a car. There are many obstacles on the road while we were racing and eventually I hit one of the obstacles 3x which reduced my speed and I felt like cancelling the game because I had lost the race.

But eventually we had second lap to go. I found myself just racing harder until I saw the car I was racing with, I ran till I met and passed the car just as...