In an episode powered by the speculative Italian media, we ask why Sebastian Vettel’s contract talks have stalled and why Bill Gates is suddenly despised.

Australia and New Zealand are the same place. We talk a shocking amount of IndyCar for an F1 podcast. And tenpin bowling gets a mention.

The 2020 French Grand Prix gets stuck in traffic, F1 buys into Helmut Marko’s coronacamp at the Red Bull Ring and Michael and Rob are too old for TikTok.

Is Austria the New Zealand of Germany? Is Australia the Malaysia of F1? Who is Samuel Newman? These are men, they are orange and something has happened to my brain and I have to go.

We catch up with Mat Walker and Rhys Gardiner from the Race for Relief to debrief Rob’s highly noteworthy iRacing debut, plus we cross live to our cryptocurrency correspondent and old podcast rival.

Replay: Race for Relief

The gossip edition of Box of Neutrals asks these burning F1 questions: Is Rob still in the toilet? Who’s pregnant now? And where have you camped unusual?

The F1 teams are putting their engineering nous to good use, so we ask: where have you baked carbon fibre unusual? And we get around Race for Relief to support Australia’s bushfire-ravaged regions.

Michael and Rob use the power of the internet and some suspicious trial software to record the podcast in the comfort of surprisingly echolike self-isolation.

Box of Neutrals is back for another season of light chat about deadly viruses, international fugitives and suburban car wreckers as F1 hurtles uncontrollably towards the Australian Grand Prix.

Michael and Rob are joined by Superlicense's Rod Gordon and, via scatellite [sic], Zach Priest (and no-one else) to hand out the 2019 F1 awards more reputable publications don't want you to know about.