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Driving real change

On a nondescript day in the middle of June this year, in a scene typical of lockdown entertainment in the age of Covid-19, four twenty-somethings stepped into their respective bedrooms, turned on their gaming PCs and began broadcasting what they were playing to Twitch.

Nicknamed ‘The Twitch Quartet’, Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Alexander Albon are not, as their nickname might suggest, a foursome of hardcore young gamers. Nor are they eSports aficionados. Rather, as anyone with even a cursory interest in Formula 1 will tell you, they’re four of the brightest young talents in the world’s most prestigious motorsport championship. And with F1 undergoing some major upheavals, they have become

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