ADAMO DEALS WITH THE INEVITABLE QUESTIONS
he helicopter shots that opened each broadcast of this year’s Rally Italia Sardegna showed the beauty of a hillside town and the rustic charm of the island. Whether intentionally or not, the sequence mirrored the credits to Italy’s celebrated TV export,, tales of a police detective who navigates the grey area in which the law does not always favour victims or the community. The delicacy with which Montalbano must think and act is often undermined by the constant badgering of local press and the inability of his team to perform their tasks to his satisfaction. Several parallels could be found with Hyundai team principal Andrea Adamo over the course of the weekend, as the fortunes of his drivers ebbed and flowed.
