As soon as I saw this, these two images immediately popped into my head.
Mika Hakkinen crying in the woods after spinning out due to an unforced error in the 1999 Italian GP.
Luca Badoer at the following race, the 1999 European GP, breaking down in tears after missing out on his first ever F1 points when his Minardi's gear box failed 13 laps from the end while he was holding a strong 4th place.
For Mika, the high was taking his second title that season, for Badoer however, the high would never come and his career would end in humiliation for Ferrari, many years later.