I'm surprised I didn't see more of you on the Elite Terrace at the Palais Heracles on Sunday. There was no better place to watch Hamo drive the race of his life around a circuit originally designed for trams and horse-drawn carriages where most of the time if you start on the front row of the grid you win.
Now, disappointingly, for a so-called sophisticated city, there was no Coopers or even any of Ed Carr's great Tassie-made Museum Release Blanc de Blancs. But there was an unlimited supply of premium champagne, wine, water, coffee and soft drink.
Don't forget Monaco is a circuit imbued with Aussie history. Mark Webber won here twice, the Honey Badger and Jack Brabham once and our own Paul Hawkins is only one of two racers in history to drive through the straw bales into the harbour.
It was sort of business as usual at the start. Hamo looked unbeatable but then the Merc team made a bad call, putting Hamo and Botto on medium tyres while Fezzer and Red Bull went for hards.
Was it the bad weather, a stand-in auctioneer or is the classic car market going south more than we all think? All we know is that at last weekend's RM Sotheby's Villa Erba auction, sell-through on the day was only around 60 per cent.