Idea: it was not an actual diamond
Sidhu utterly denies the rumours of a faux diamond.
“I’ve realized that any diamond firm is just not going to go on the market, significantly within the public area, and use faux diamonds as a result of clearly there is a excessive threat of being caught,” he says.
“Had we used a faux diamond in that automotive and what befell befell, then clearly the embarrassment and the disrepute it might carry Jaguar, and Components 1 for that matter, was too excessive threat.
“There’s been a great deal of conspiracy theories about was it an actual diamond or was Christian advised to crash his automotive and I feel that is what’s given the story its life – there is a thriller to this story and that thriller will all the time breed totally different theories.”
Purnell backs up the legitimacy of the diamond, recalling a dialog he had with the managing director of the group, David Pitchforth.
“David stated, ‘Tony, it was positively actual as a result of once they got here to the workplace with it, I picked the diamond up, went to the window and scratched the window’ as a result of that is tips on how to inform.
“Listening to that from Dave, I am in little question it was the actual factor that was placed on the automotive.
“I do not know if one among our mechanics was switched on sufficient to make a faux, however I do not suppose so.”
Idea: somebody pocketed it
“I feel any person in all probability simply picked it up, put it of their pocket and… they’re in all probability smiling and pondering, ‘it is in my drawer’,” says Purnell.
“I do suppose additionally that a pretty big diamond zooming by means of at 100 miles an hour in all probability shattered. Anyone’s obtained slightly bit, any person else has obtained one other [little bit].
“Possibly, sadly, just a few man was sweeping up the street or a type of vehicles with the brushes and all of it went down the sewer.
“It did happen to me that the last word factor could be if Clooney, Pitt and Damon had contrived to steal it as a result of it was so consistent with Ocean’s Eleven. However that was a fantasy too far.”
There would have been a whole bunch, if not hundreds, of individuals within the space as a result of inside an hour or so of the top of the race the circuit would have been returned to public roads.
Sidhu is fairly sure about what occurred to the diamond: “Somebody’s picked it up.
“What individuals are inclined to do is, imagine it or not, decide up bits of tyre rubber, you already know, declare that as Michael Schumacher’s entrance tyre rubber or no matter they will discover.
“Anyone could have picked it up not having any concept it got here off a automotive.
“There’s quite a lot of diamonds in Monte Carlo. There’s lots of people strolling round Monte Carlo with quite a lot of jewelry and quite a lot of stones.
“Anyone dropped a diamond in Monte Carlo. Nicely, they don’t seem to be going to overlook that, are they? Most likely not.”
Idea: Klien crashed on goal
Sidhu says the price of the injury to the automotive was greater than the price of the diamond, which studies on the time stated was uninsured.
And factors and a great end result within the race have been extra precious to the group and people than a diamond or the publicity a crash would carry. It was merely not price crashing on goal.
“For us, bringing two vehicles dwelling, ideally within the factors, had far larger industrial advantages to us by way of constructors’ factors, broadcast cash, and extra importantly, attempting to retain our sponsors and attempting to guard the integrity of the group,” Sidhu explains.
Klien drove straight into the boundaries proper in entrance of the marshals so wouldn’t have had the prospect to start out in search of a diamond or choosing it up even when he had needed to.
“Christian did not try to say all of the brakes failed or something like that, he is simply stated ‘I made a rookie mistake’,” says Purnell.
“He was a younger man, first time, made a mistake, it occurs. Does not often occur with a $300,000 diamond flying into the group or wherever it went, however I am certain Christian wasn’t actually conscious of the diamond.
“No amount of cash would have gotten Christian to do this [crash on purpose]. He needed to make successful of what he was doing.”
