Ya tengo el nº de septiembre de 1958 de MotorSport en la que Denis Jenkinson publicó su crónica de la Copa de los Alpes 1958 (ó 1958 Alpine Rally). No sale ninguna fotografía ni de la Giulietta ni de ningún otro coche del evento.
Sin embargo, explica así las razones de su aventura a bordo de una Giulietta Spider filmando una película para la Shell sobre la Copa de los Alpes:
“By a series of logical steps I was approached by a certain John Armstrong, who runs the Shell Film Unit, to see if I would be interested in helping him make a film. Now that sounded different from the usual run of things, so I agreed and decided that this would be the much-talked-about holiday, and went along to have a chat with Armstrong about this film making. I soon discovered that this chap was “one of us," having been assistant to Bill Mason in the making of the 1952 Le Mans film and the 1953 Mille Miglia, and anyone who has been to Silverstone Club meetings knows Bill Mason and his 4,1/2-litre Bentley. Then I discovered that this Armstrong was the lunatic who used to race a black Ford Eight van, minus its rear doors and fitted with a hot Ford Ten engine, a few years ago before “van racing" was really popular in Club circles; in fact, he was one of the pioneers of the “tradesman's handicap" type of racing; I began to think that perhaps I was going to get mixed up in some motoring after all on this “holiday," when I had been visualising basking in the glamour of film studios and starlets. My fears were confirmed. We were to make a motoring film; in fact, a film of the Alpine Rally, and my job was to drive a car fitted with a cine-camera, along most of the route, taking action shots of the competitors. “Let's face it," I thought, “motoring is your way of life, no matter what happens, holiday or no holiday." Upon thinking about the matter a bit more I realised that the Alpine Rally was an event I knew nothing about, apart from what I read in the motor papers. The car I was to use was a factory Alfa-Romeo Giulietta Spyder with a Sprint Veloce engine, my companion was to be David Samuelson, one of British Movietone's top cameramen, whom I had never even met, and I was to follow the route over all the tiny and dicey passes such as the Vivione, Gavia, Allos, Soubeyrand, and many others that I had never even heard of, and it was to go on from Monday to Saturday. “This is going to be different," I thought, “if a holiday is a matter of doing something that is out of the ordinary routine of things, then this is going to be a real holiday.””
