Dan Ticktum

Dan Ticktum in 2015

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.

In 2015, Ticktum graduated to MSA Formula with Fortec Motorsport.[4] 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.[5][6] As a result, he finished 6th in his first season of single seater racing.

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.[7]

In January 2017, Ticktum was announced as a member of the Red Bull Junior Team, racing in the 2017 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with Arden International.[8] He claimed his only win in the season at Hungaroring and finished the season seventh in the driver standings.[9]

In September 2017, Ticktum made his debut in the series at Monza with DAMS.[10] He claimed a podium finish in his second full race weekend at the season finale in Abu Dhabi and finished eleventh in the standings.

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.[11] He would win the race again in 2018 after dominating throughout the whole weekend.[12]

In December 2017, it was confirmed that Ticktum would contest the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Team Motopark in 2018.[13] He would finish the championship in second after leading during the early part of the season. Ticktum won four races and amassed five pole positions, becoming the highest-placed rookie in the final year of the series.

Ticktum joined Team Mugen for the 2019 season [14] and competed in the first three rounds of the championship before parting ways with Red Bull.[15]

Ticktum drove for Arden in the final round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship in Abu Dhabi.[16] In December 2019, it was announced Ticktum would contest the 2020 season with reigning team champions DAMS [17] alongside Sean Gelael. Ticktum scored his first podium in the sprint race in Austria, meanwhile his first victory came at his home race in Silverstone.[18] After a further two podiums and a win at Monza, a race from which he would be disqualified due to lack of fuel after crossing the line,[19][20] Ticktum finished his season eleventh in the championship, being the fourth-highest rookie in the standings.[21] He would later make an appearance at the post-season test in Bahrain for Carlin alongside his F2 rival Jehan Daruvala.[22]

In 2021 he will race for Carlin alongside Daruvala.

^† As Ticktum was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

^† 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.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position points) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.