Help with Formula 1 story.

Watching F1 now, I like it, I just don't follow it closely. Whats the story behind the Jaguar team gluing a diamond to the nose of a car for a promotion and then losing it some where on the track???

See here: (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/pete_mcentegart/05/28/column.diamond/)

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The concept was straightforward enough. In part to help promote the upcoming George Clooney-Brad Pitt film Ocean's Twelve, Jaguar's two Formula One cars at Monaco each had a diamond mounted on their "nose cones," the very front of the aerodynamic rocket-like cars.

The catch is, of course, that sometimes race cars don't stay in one piece. And when 20-year-old driver Christian Klien plowed into the metal barriers nose-first after a hairpin turn in the course that winds through the glitzy Monaco streets, the diamond went flying.

The gem still hasn't been recovered. Or, more accurately, nobody has stepped forward to return a diamond worth in excess of $200,000. It's not exactly the sort of thing that most fans would drop by the lost-and-found.

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It's quite funny actually. At least one person in Monaco is a real fan of Jaguar team right now.

Another quality decision by a top notch CEO. Do you follow NHRA drag racing? I a question in tht area also.

Just a publicity stunt. This is F1...anything's possible.

But at an F1 race nearly everything is on camera. I'm sure the FIA has video of the impact of the car and what happened immediately afterward.