Jaguar F1 lose Steinmetz diamond

[FourWheelDrift]

Jaguar have been racing this weekend with Red nose cones and airboxes to advertise the movie Oceans 12. Plus both cars have been running with £100,000 pound diamonds from their sponsors Steinmetz in the nose cones of both cars.

But when Christian Klien went nose first into the barriers at Loews on the first lap, after the wreckage was cleared up and returned the diamond was missing.

Monaco, full of theives and robbers isn't it? I'd be checking the baggage of a Mr G. Clooney & Mr B. Pitt very closely when they leave.

Or is it all part of the film?

[JonRB]

Or it could be a complete fabrication designed to get the film promoted by the News media for free.

[docevi1]

I don't for one second believe they put the diamond in the most easily damaged section of the car... We didn't know this before the race so why annouce it after it was lost?

[Marki]

JonRB said:

Or it could be a complete fabrication designed to get the film promoted by the News media for free.

ahh Hollywood dont ya just love it

[FourWheelDrift]

docevi1 said:

I don't for one second believe they put the diamond in the most easily damaged section of the car... We didn't know this before the race so why annouce it after it was lost?

We did know this before the race, it's been well publicised as part of the Oceans 12 sponsorship.

[paolow]

FourWheelDrift said:

docevi1 said: I don't for one second believe they put the diamond in the most easily damaged section of the car... We didn't know this before the race so why annouce it after it was lost? We did know this before the race, it's been well publicised as part of the Oceans 12 sponsorship.

indeed we did - but are they really that stupid? did no-one stop and say, hang on, this is the twistiest circuit of the year with armco everywhere - isnt there a chance its gonna go missing? surely it wouldve made more sense to publisise it and just stick a hunk of glass or other crystal in there?

[FourWheelDrift]

A £100,000 diamond is probably worth less than the damage Klien did to the car when he went off. Certainly a whole lot less than the damage to the cars over the weekend.

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 24th May 17:42

[paolow]

FourWheelDrift said:

A £100,000 diamond is probably worth less than the damage Klien did to the car when he went off. Certainly a whole lot less than the damage to the cars over the weekend. >> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 24th May 17:42

true but my opinion was that jag havent got money to burn and that diamond is 3 or 4 good mechanics for a whole season. THEN i did a bit of looking on the internet and jag man said "I don't expect we are going to get it back at all but we were prepared for this otherwise we would never have done it"
what does he mean? the gem is insured? who the hell would cover that risk? webbers a top driver but they must surely have known that either he or more likely, klien would have an off at SOME point over the weekend?
ergo my theory is this - for minimal actual car coverage and the loss of a 150k gem (or £3 lizzy-duke catseye) steinmetz have got the attention of millions of newspaper readers around the world. a good media move. just look at the itv f1 website - the diamond gets a lot of coverage and i'm of the opinion that it could have been a very clever move by steinmetz - rather than an unfortunate accident (although not suggestig that the crash was premeditated). yeah, the diamond is gone, but the flipside is a damn sight more than 150ks worth in an increase in brand awareness. or maybe its all just my own little conspiracy theory

[docevi1]

FourWheelDrift said:

docevi1 said: I don't for one second believe they put the diamond in the most easily damaged section of the car... We didn't know this before the race so why annouce it after it was lost? We did know this before the race, it's been well publicised as part of the Oceans 12 sponsorship.

not good publicity then I didn't

[FourWheelDrift]

You're obviously not in the right social circles then

[dazren]

Probably fakes.

DAZ

[DanH]

I didn't reckon they were real in the first place. Why bother putting a real one there - hard to tell at 100+mph

[FourWheelDrift]

They were hoping to dazzle the opposition.

[g4ry13]

I heard Jaguar were offering a £27,000 car (i assume the x type) if someone turned in the diamond.

[JonRB]

paolow said:

yeah, the diamond is gone, but the flipside is a damn sight more than 150ks worth in an increase in brand awareness. or maybe its all just my own little conspiracy theory

Which I think is what I said in the 2nd post of this thread.

[ErnestM]

g4ry13 said:

I heard Jaguar were offering a £27,000 car (i assume the x type) if someone turned in the diamond.

Just announced over here that it was a $ 65,000 car. Probably an S-type-R or some such then...

ErnestM