73 Facts About Dan Ticktum

Daniel Charles Anthony Ticktum was born on 8 June 1999 and is a British racing driver, who competes in Formula E for Kiro Race Co.

Dan Ticktum became a member of the Red Bull Junior Team in 2017, winning the Macau Grand Prix in 2017 and 2018, as well as finishing runner-up in the 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship.

Dan Ticktum was awarded the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award in 2017.

Dan Ticktum enjoyed early success, winning the Bamford Kart Club Winter Series and competing in the Super 1 National Championship in the Honda Cadet class with Project One Racing in just his first year of competition.

In 2013, Dan Ticktum joined Ricky Flynn Motorsport, finishing second in the European Championship, tying on points with winner Lando Norris, and second in the National Super One Championship.

Dan Ticktum finished sixth and fourth in the World and European championships respectively.

In 2015, Dan Ticktum graduated to MSA Formula with Fortec Motorsport.

Dan Ticktum led the early rounds of the Championship, taking two victories at Donington and one at Snetterton, but fell behind his main rivals Lando Norris and Colton Herta as the season progressed.

At the penultimate round of the season at Silverstone, Dan Ticktum got involved in an incident with Ricky Collard on the opening lap, which dropped him to the back of the field.

In 2016, Dan Ticktum returned to motorsport, competing in the final round of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship in Hockenheim with Carlin.

Dan Ticktum took part in the BRDC British Formula 3 Autumn Trophy with Double R Racing, where he won the second race and placed fourth in the standings.

In 2015 Dan Ticktum made a one-off appearance in the Formula Renault Eurocup with Koiranen GP, finishing 16th and eleventh in his two races at the Nurburgring.

Dan Ticktum competed in the MRF Challenge in pre-season during the final round.

Dan Ticktum claimed his only win of the season at the Hungaroring, having qualified on pole during a wet-weather session, and scored two further podiums at Silverstone and the Nurburgring, finishing the season seventh in the drivers' standings.

Dan Ticktum became the second-best rookie of the season, finishing thirty points behind Max Fewtrell.

In September 2017, Dan Ticktum made his debut in the GP3 Series at Monza with DAMS, partnering Tatiana Calderon and Bruno Baptista.

Dan Ticktum claimed a podium finish in his second full race weekend at the season finale in Abu Dhabi and finished eleventh in the standings, ahead of some full-time competitors, including all drivers who raced for DAMS that year.

In November 2017, Dan Ticktum competed in a one-off race at the Macau Grand Prix with Team Motopark.

However, Dan Ticktum managed to overtake three of his rivals into Lisboa corner on lap 14 and claimed victory after leaders Ferdinand Habsburg and Sergio Sette Camara crashed in the final corner of the 15th and final lap.

Dan Ticktum became the third driver to win the race in consecutive years.

Dan Ticktum started the season in positive fashion, scoring third place in the opening race at Pau.

At the following round at the Norisring, Dan Ticktum stalled at the start of the second race and was hit from behind by Ameya Vaidyanathan, which forced the Brit to go to hospital and his team to fully repair the car with just a few hours available.

Thankfully for Dan Ticktum, Motopark were able to fix his chassis and he went on to win the following race, less than a tenth ahead of teammate Vips.

Dan Ticktum later described the work his team had done as "unbelievable".

However, in the last three rounds of the championship, Schumacher scored a total of eight podiums out of nine races, with five successive wins, which put Dan Ticktum from being 36 points ahead of the Prema driver after the Misano round to being 52 points behind by season's end.

Dan Ticktum amassed five pole positions and a total of eight podiums, becoming the highest-placed rookie in the final year of the series.

Dan Ticktum's performances made sure that Motopark would finish second in the teams' championship.

Mid-2018 Dan Ticktum was announced to make his debut in the Super Formula Championship with Team Mugen at Sportsland Sugo.

Dan Ticktum retired from that race, but competed in the following event at Fuji, finishing eleventh.

Dan Ticktum joined Team Mugen for the 2019 season, partnering Tomoki Nojiri, after an unsuccessful attempt to find a Formula 2 drive.

Dan Ticktum's campaign started out with an eighth place at the Suzuka Circuit, but things would head for the worst when Ticktum stalled his car after a spin on a curb in the next round at Autopolis.

The spin damaged the chassis, and, after his request to check the car on a chassis dyno was denied by Mugen, Dan Ticktum found himself being one second behind teammate Nojiri in qualifying for the round at Sportsland Sugo.

Dan Ticktum then competed in two rounds of the Formula Regional European Championship for Van Amersfoort Racing, scoring a pair of second places in Barcelona, this allowed him to end ninth in the standings.

Dan Ticktum was involved in a pileup during the qualification race, but clawed his way back to 13th in the main event.

At the start of 2018, Dan Ticktum first tested in Formula 2 when DAMS' Nicholas Latifi had fallen ill.

Dan Ticktum would be deprived of a podium opportunity in Budapest after a mechanical issue during the sprint race, but scored points in the feature race.

Dan Ticktum bounced back in the sprint race where he earned his first victory in Formula 2, having held off a charging Lundgaard in the final laps.

Dan Ticktum managed to climb to seventh in the sprint.

Dan Ticktum finished both races in tenth, but scored two points in the sprint race thanks to a fastest lap.

Dan Ticktum did not take part in Belgium practice due to an inconclusive Covid-19 test, but was cleared for qualifying.

Dan Ticktum secured second in qualifying at Mugello, but incidents deprived him of any points.

Dan Ticktum finished his season eleventh in the championship, placing as the fourth-highest rookie with 96.5 points, one victory and three other podiums.

When he overtook Oscar Piastri, the Australian collided with him and spun out; Dan Ticktum managed to keep going.

Dan Ticktum overtook Richard Verschoor on the penultimate lap and finished the race in second, only half a second behind Guanyu Zhou.

Dan Ticktum was able to turn around his favours immediately, finishing second in the first Baku sprint race, having overtaken four drivers in the first half of the race.

Dan Ticktum finished on the podium in both the second sprint and the feature race, scoring more points that weekend than any other driver bar championship leader Oscar Piastri, and was the only driver to score two podiums that weekend.

Dan Ticktum then started the feature race from eighth on the grid, being the first driver to line up with harder tyres at the start.

Dan Ticktum scored his second win of the season in mixed conditions at the following round in Sochi, having led the sprint race from start to finish.

Dan Ticktum finished fifth in the feature race that weekend, having started tenth.

Dan Ticktum finished 10th in the feature race on Sunday, thus ending his podium streak of six consecutive rounds of getting at least one podium.

Dan Ticktum had an uneventful weekend in the final round at the Yas Marina Circuit, but finished in the top six in all three races.

Dan Ticktum ended up fourth in the drivers' standings with two wins and seven podiums in total and a 159.5 points, 23.5 points behind third-placed Zhou.

Dan Ticktum returned with Rodin Carlin to participate in the 2023 Macau Grand Prix.

In January 2017, Dan Ticktum was announced as a member of the Red Bull Junior Team.

Dan Ticktum was unable to take part in July 2018 in-season test due to insufficient superlicence points, with Red Bull stating it was "odd".

However, Dan Ticktum was scolded by Red Bull after he questioned Mick Schumacher's recent dominance in the 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship.

Dan Ticktum was named in the line-up of the Williams Driver Academy in December 2019, where he was designated the role of a development driver.

Dan Ticktum stated that he was "looking forward to [racing in Formula E], as it's a totally different experience to Formula 2".

At the following round in Monaco, Dan Ticktum beat his teammate Turvey, finishing twelfth, however a weekend in Berlin, which the Brit described as "pretty disastrous", ended with finishes near the back of the pecking order.

Dan Ticktum later described that drive as having been "the performance of [his] life".

Dan Ticktum finished the season 21st in the standings, helping NIO 333 to not finish last for the first time in three seasons.

Dan Ticktum summed up his season as having been "challenging with lots to learn", whilst stating that, considering his lack of experience, he was "pretty happy" with being on par with his teammate Turvey over the course of the season.

At the second round in Diriyah, Dan Ticktum managed to improve his best starting position, qualifying fourth, having missed out on a place in the final stage of the duels courtesy of a mistake in the final corner of the semi-final.

Dan Ticktum would come back to points-scoring ways in Cape Town, finishing sixth after having started from eighth place.

For Race 1 of the Berlin ePrix, the Briton qualified in fourth and experienced an eventful race; Dan Ticktum took the lead at the first corner, though he was later embroiled in a collision with Stoffel Vandoorne, which put both drivers out of the race and earned him a five-place grid drop for the following day.

Dan Ticktum recovered from an 18th-placed starting spot on Sunday to take a sole point.

Dan Ticktum was able to remove the broken wing during the safety car period and ended the race in sixth.

Whilst Gunther called for Dan Ticktum to receive a race ban following the race, the Briton, as well as the race stewards, held the view that it had been a racing incident.

Dan Ticktum remained with NIO for a third successive season alongside Sergio Sette Camara , as the team rebranded as ERT Formula E Team.

Dan Ticktum's result put him 19th in the drivers' championship with 12 points, ahead of teammate Sette Camara again, but could not prevent ERT from finishing last in the teams' championship.

Dan Ticktum remained with ERT alongside a new teammate in David Beckmann, as the team rebranded to Cupra Kiro.

Dan Ticktum has gained a following of over twelve thousand followers on streaming-platform Twitch, where he plays Call of Duty.

Dan Ticktum is well-known for his outspoken, blunt and occasionally discourteous nature, which mostly stands out in interviews and team radio messages and has earned him a controversial reputation.