Norris is proud owner of Quadrant: 'Wanted to do this for a long while'

Lando Norris has set up his own esports team. The McLaren driver is from now on team owner of the Quadrant team. However he is not the first driver on the grid with his own esports team.

Norris proved to be extremely popular for his streams during the lockdown. According to the 20-year-old Briton, this helped set up his team. "Quadrant is something I've wanted to do for a long while. The lockdown accelerated things because I was doing a lot more streaming online and getting more into it," says Norris in conversation with BBC Sport.

"We are starting reasonably small but with the dream of expanding and becoming a much bigger team throughout all esports and not just racing," Norris continues. "While racing will be a focus and be a bigger passion than almost any other esports, it is hopefully going to be expanding into many other different categories of esports and games."

Norris is not the only driver who has set up his own esports team. In April of this year Romain Grosjean announced that he had started R8G Sim Racing. However, as the name suggests, Grosjean only keeps it to racing.