Naturally then, the Monaco Grand Prix, which even today is by far the glitziest race on the calendar, was about as crazy back then as you could expect it to be. Tobacco money ran like a tap throughout the sport and budgets were effectively unlimited as a result, allowing teams to be about as gaudy as they’ve ever been. Even for the poorer outfits like the Ford-owned Jaguar team (which would eventually become Red Bull), life was a diamond-encrusted party on Monaco weekend.

Quite literally, in fact. As part of a sponsorship deal with the aforementioned Ocean’s Eleven sequel, the movie’s promoters and the team made the absolutely baffling joint decision to run the two Jaguar F1 cars that race (piloted by Mark Webber and Christian Klien at the time) with a literal diamond set into the front nose of each car. That’s not one, but two diamonds.

We’re not making this up. It was an actual decision that was actually made. On a track perhaps best known for claiming the front end of Formula 1 cars than any other. They weren’t even put in specially for the race — Christian Klien was tearing around Monte Carlo, $300,000 diamond strapped to his front wing and all, on Thursday practice with barely anyone watching.

As others have pointed out, Ocean’s Twelve was actually about the theft of a Faberge Egg, but hey. Semantics.