Big puffs of oily smoke filling the air, tyres screeching, the driver fighting the unfamiliar feedback of the steering wheel. Our Saturday afternoon in Silverstone definitely started in a challenging way, asking the best of us just to achieve the objective we had set ourselves to. Thankfully, this was just the show run we did with the historical Alfetta, an hour or so before qualifying. The showpiece event of the day was a slightly more straightforward affair. Qualifying went without a hitch: the rain that was feared before the session did not materialise, there were no big surprises and the session produced fairly predictable - if perhaps unspectacularly so - results. Missing out on Q3,...
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