Dan Ticktum


Daniel Ticktum is a British racing driver currently competing in the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship with DAMS. He is also currently a development driver with Williams Grand Prix Engineering. He won the Macau Grand Prix in 2017 and 2018, and finished second in the 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship. Ticktum was awarded the BRDC McLaren Autosport Award in 2017, and was named Autosport National Driver of the Year in 2018.
Ticktum was a member of the Red Bull Junior Team from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, he competed in the first three rounds of the Super Formula Championship in Japan.
He will compete in the Formula 2 Championship in 2020 for the DAMS team alongside Indonesian Sean Gelael.

Career

Karting

Born in London, Ticktum entered karting at the age of eight, competing in Honda Cadets with Project One Racing. He enjoyed early success, culminating in placing second in the National Super One Championship in 2010 before moving into Comer Cadet.
In 2011, he completed the Grand Slam of British national cadet titles — winning the British FKS Championship, National ABkC Super One Championship, British Open Championship and British Grand Prix Championship. This has been achieved by only one other driver.
A year later, Ticktum moved into the international scene, competing in the WSK Euro Series and WSK Masters Series, finishing both championships as the highest placed rookie.
In 2013, Ticktum joined Ricky Flynn Motorsport, finishing second in the CIK FIA European Championship, tying on points with the Champion, and second in the National Super One Championship. The same year Ticktum was awarded the KFJ Andrea Margutti Trophy; previous winners include F1 stars Giancarlo Fisichella, Robert Kubica and most recently Daniil Kvyat.
The following year, Ticktum finished second in the WSK Masters and during his first test with Lanan Racing, in BRDC Formula 4 Championship, he broke the lap record at the Brands Indy circuit.

MSA Formula and two year ban

In 2015, Ticktum graduated to MSA Formula with Fortec Motorsport. He led the early rounds of the Championship, until an incident at Silverstone, where he purposely overtook several cars while under safety car conditions to crash into a rival, Ricky Collard. This saw him receive a two-year ban from motorsport, of which one year was a suspended ban. As a result, he finished 6th in his first season of single seater racing.

FIA European Formula 3 Championship

In 2016, Ticktum returned to motorsport, competing in the final round of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship in Hockenheim with Carlin. He then raced in the Macau Grand Prix with Double R Racing finishing 8th in Saturday's qualifying race before retiring early in the main race.

Formula Renault

In January 2017, Ticktum was as a member of the Red Bull Junior Team, racing in the 2017 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with Arden International. He claimed his only win in the season at Hungaroring and finished the season seventh in the driver standings.

GP3 Series

In September 2017, Ticktum made his debut in the series at Monza with DAMS. He claimed a podium finish in his second full race weekend at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.

FIA Formula 3 World Cup

In November 2017, Ticktum competed in a one-off race at the Macau Grand Prix with Team Motopark and claimed victory after leaders Ferdinand Habsburg and Sérgio Sette Câmara crashed in the final corner. He would win the race again in 2018.

FIA European Formula 3 Championship

In December 2017, it was confirmed that Ticktum would contest the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Team Motopark in 2018. He would finish the championship in second after leading during the early part of the season.

Super Formula Championship

Ticktum joined Team Mugen for the 2019 season and competed in the first three rounds of the championship before parting ways with Red Bull.

FIA Formula 2 Championship

Ticktum drove for Arden in the final round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship in Abu Dhabi. In December 2019, it was announced Ticktum would contest the 2020 season with reigning team champions DAMS alongside Sean Gelael.

Racing record

Career summary

† As Ticktum was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
* Season still in progress.

Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results

YearEntrantEngine123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930DCPoints
2016CarlinVolkswagenLEC
1		LEC
2		LEC
3		HUN
1		HUN
2		HUN
3		PAU
1		PAU
2		PAU
3		RBR
1		RBR
2		RBR
3		NOR
1		NOR
2		NOR
3		ZAN
1		ZAN
2		ZAN
3		SPA
1		SPA
2		SPA
3		NÜR
1		NÜR
2		NÜR
3		IMO
1		IMO
2		IMO
3		HOC
1
13		HOC
2
20		HOC
3
14		NC*0
2018MotoparkVolkswagenPAU
1
3		PAU
2
Ret		PAU
3
5‡		HUN
1
1		HUN
2
Ret		HUN
3
2		NOR
1
4		NOR
2
Ret		NOR
3
1		ZAN
1
5		ZAN
2
6		ZAN
3
Ret		SPA
1
13		SPA
2
1		SPA
3
5		SIL
1
1		SIL
2
8		SIL
3
6		MIS
1
6		MIS
2
4		MIS
3
4		NÜR
1
3		NÜR
2
3		NÜR
3
4		RBR
1
8		RBR
2
17†		RBR
3
4		HOC
1
5		HOC
2
7		HOC
3
4		2nd308

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
* As Ticktum was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete GP3 Series results

YearEntrant12345678910111213141516PosPoints
2017DAMSCAT
FEA		CAT
SPR		RBR
FEA		RBR
SPR		SIL
FEA		SIL
SPR		HUN
FEA		HUN
SPR		SPA
FEA		SPA
SPR		MNZ
FEA
13		MNZ
SPR
C		JER
FEA
4		JER
SPR
Ret		YMC
FEA
4		YMC
SPR
3		11th34

Complete Super Formula results

YearEntrant1234567DCPoints
2018Team MugenSUZAUTSUG
Ret		FUJ
11		MOTOKASUZ19th0
2019Team MugenSUZ
8		AUT
Ret		SUG
15		FUJMOTOKASUZ20th1

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

YearEntrant123456789101112131415161718192021222324DCPoints
BWT ArdenBHR
FEA		BHR
SPR		BAK
FEA		BAK
SPR		CAT
FEA		CAT
SPR		MON
FEA		MON
SPR		LEC
FEA		LEC
SPR		RBR
FEA		RBR
SPR		SIL
FEA		SIL
SPR		HUN
FEA		HUN
SPR		SPA
FEA		SPA
SPR		MNZ
FEA		MNZ
SPR		SOC
FEA		SOC
SPR		YMC
FEA
11		YMC
SPR
Ret		23rd0
DAMSRBR
FEA
5		RBR
SPR
3		RBR
FEA
8		RBR
SPR
2		HUN
FEA
9		HUN
SPR
NC		SIL
FEA
8		SIL
SPR
1		SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
MUG
FEA
MUG
SPR
**

* Season still in progress.