To achieve something like this, recovery diamond worth one million dollars from the nose of a bad race car from a dead F1 team crashed 20 years ago, I would have to be absolutely crazy. And I’m It’s going to take a team as passionate as me. This is one of the strangest stories in F1 history, all eyes are on Monaco Grand Prix race This weekend only. sure if they haven’t found the damn thing by now I won’t stand a chance. That’s what you think.
During the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, the Jaguar team (which, it should be known, was in a rather difficult situation) received sponsorship from the sequel to the Steven Soderbergh heist movie “Oceans Twelve”. As part of the film’s promotion, the Jaguars were studded with huge sparkling Steinmetz diamonds worth about a quarter of a million dollars each. Team riders Christian Klein and Mark Webber were excellent from the start, but after the first lap, Klein spun into the barriers and lost his front wing in the process.
The car was towed off the racing surface, but it took several hours for the team to attend due to the geography of the narrow Monegasque circuit. When the team arrived at the scene to retrieve the vehicle and the missing wing, the diamond was gone. The theory is that the rock jumped off the nose support upon impact with the wall and was carried along with the rest of the track at the end of the race. I know better than all that.
Klein apparently staged the collision that sent him running through his own wing, put the rock in his pocket, gave it to a Jaguar associate dressed as a corner cop, who then made a wardrobe change shirt, a natural twentieth deception and tampering with the diamond. to the secret hideout, a bunker at the bottom of the Monaco harbor. I believe that the crew and some of their blue-red associates accidentally left the stone in that water vault at the time of the event and intended to return a few years later to retrieve it. In fact, it’s been twenty years.
Maybe this whole thing is an elaborate ruse to draw people’s attention to the George Clooney Oceans sequel. Or maybe it was all just a setup, and while I was telling you this story, my team was orchestrating the whole plan. Maybe they put the diamond in their pocket and replaced it with a sparkling moissanite cut stone. Perhaps you will never know.
