We consider which Australians are best placed to buy Williams according to our patented F1 Weird Unit Index and advocate for sanctioned doping to make sport more exciting in 2020.
We lament the loss of another questionable F1 title sponsor. Reverse-grid races are suddenly popular. Lawrence Stroll will buy every team (except Williams).
Daniel Abt and Daniel Abt speculate wildly on Sebastian Vettel’s future, the state of Renault’s finances and whether AFL-style tanking will come to F1.
Ferrari blows up the driver market, Daniel Ricciardo blows up Cyril Abiteboul’s heart and the news cycle blows up the timeliness of our podcast.
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 ReliefThe 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.