It’s hard to argue that anyone had a worse weekend than Sylvain Guintoli, who suffered a broken leg after Josh Brookes ploughed into him on the warm up lap for race one of British Superbikes at Donington Park. Photos of that here.

He’s now down to fourth in the standings, but far worse than that, he’s expected to be out for longer than the initially estimated eight to ten weeks. It’s obviously a massive shame for Guintoli and the Worx Crescent Suzuki team, but also the series and its fans – because it’s a very competitive rider out of the title race.

A far more positive loser, if you like, was Sebastien Loeb, who for the first time in the six rounds of this year’s World Rally Championship so far, failed to win a rally. I’m never a fan of a driver being dominant for too long, so it’s nice to see Jari-Matti Latvala taking the victory. It’s a shame for the championship that Mikko Hirvonen didn’t take full advantage of Loeb’s moment of weakness, but Loeb’s so far in the lead that it probably doesn’t matter.

Arguably the weekend’s biggest winner was Petter Solberg, who finished Rally Italy as top Citroen in his old, but not as old as it was at the start of the season, Xsara WRC. It was close though: Loeb initially finished 3rd in the C4, but a two-minute time penalty for a seat belt rule infringement promoted Solberg to a second season podium, a shoved Loeb down to 4th.

It was all about British winners in Monaco on Sunday. Obviously Jenson Button won the Formula 1 race, but there was also Oliver Turvey in Formula Renault 3.5 or World Series by Renault depending on your nomenclature preference, and Richard Westbrook in the Porsche Supercup.

Nelson Piquet was a definite loser in Formula 1, but I almost – almost – feel sorry for him. He was shunted out of the race by Sebastien Buemi through no fault of his own. Given that Piquet really needs to start proving that he deserves his drive with Renault, it’s potentially very harsh that an opportunity to do so was taken from him.

But it happens to everyone, and all sympathy went out of the window when he started talking about Buemi as one of “these young drivers” who “need to calm down”. That’s Piquet, about whom Falvio Briatore said after the Chinese Grand Prix: “this was kind of a contest: the more you spin the more points you have”.

People in glass houses, Nelson.