I'm forming a team to find the missing diamond of F1 Monaco

To achieve such a feat, it is necessary to recover a quarter million dollar diamond from the nose of a bad racing car of a dead F1 team that crashed 20 years ago, I should be completely crazy. And I am I'm going to need a crew as crazy as me. It's one of the most bizarre stories in F1 history, and all eyes were on the Monaco Grand Prix just this weekend. Certainly if they haven't found the damn thing yet I won't have a chance. It's what you think.

At the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, the Jaguar team (in a rather dire situation, it should be noted) took on sponsorship of the sequel to Steven Soderbergh's heist film, “Oceans Twelve.” As part of the film's promotion, the Jaguars were outfitted with giant, sparkling Steinmetz diamonds worth about a quarter of a million dollars each. Team drivers Christian Klein and Mark Webber did well from the start, but later on the first lap, Klein crashed into the barrier, losing his front wing in the process.

The car has been removed from the racing surface, but it will be a few hours before the team can deal with it, due to the geographical problems of the narrow Monaco circuit. When the team arrived on scene to recover the car and the lost fender, the diamond was missing. The current theory is that the rock jumped from its front support upon impact with the wall and was carried away with the rest of the debris from the track at the end of the race. I know better than all that.

Klein obviously orchestrated the accident that saw him run over his own wing, pocketed the stone, handed it to a Jaguar associate dressed as a local marshal, who then faked a wardrobe change, a natural deception roll of twenty, and obscured the diamond. to the secret hiding place, a vault at the bottom of the port of Monaco. I believe the driving team and some of their green and red associates unceremoniously left the stone in this watery vault at the time of the event and intended to return several years later to retrieve it. Twenty years, in fact.

Maybe this was all just an elaborate ruse to get people to pay attention to George Clooney's Oceans sequel. Or maybe this was all a setup, and while I'm telling you this story, my team has already orchestrated the whole scheme. Maybe they already pocketed the diamond and replaced it with a sparkling cut moissanite rock. Maybe you'll never know.