There is no better place for the silly-season driver merry-go-round rumours to ramp up a notch than the paddock at Monza.
The final throes of summer, the end of the European season and the amphitheatre of Formula 1's most atmospheric track never disappoint.
Even Bernie Ecclestone, responding to the rumblings surrounding the potentially imminent departure of Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, conceded that what emerges in the famous Royal Park is always something special.