Dan Ticktum

**Daniel Ticktum** (born 8 June 1999) is a British racing driver who competes in the 2019 Super Formula Championship for the factory Honda squad Team Mugen. A Red Bull Junior Team member, **Ticktum** arrived in Super Formula as one of the most controversial young drivers on the circuit, after serving a one-year ban for hitting another driver during his time in MSA Formula.

## Background

Ticktum's career began at the age of eight, entering various karting classes until he finished as runner-up in the 2014 WSK Masters series. That lead to a test in a BRDC Formula 4 Championship car, before the Brit was signed to w:c:motorsport:MSA Formula for 2015. Ticktum duly impressed with a series of dominant performances early on during the season, only to throw all of that away with a moment of madness mid-season.

### Bans and Bulls

Ticktum would earn himself a one year (with an additional year suspended) ban, after deliberately crashing into title rival Ricky Collard under safety car conditions. Miraculously, Ticktum would return to racing in 2016, taking a drive at the final round of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. He subsequently obtained a place in the Red Bull Junior Team for 2017, which lead to a seat in the Eurocup Formula Renault that season.

After claiming seventh in the Eurocup Ticktum would use his Red Bull backing to move into the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2018, having rounded out 2017 with a victory at the Macau Grand Prix. Ticktum would again prove controversial in F3, suggesting that eventual Champion Mick Schumacher was getting better engines in the spec-series, having lost out to the German during the second half of the season. Regardless, Ticktum would round out 2018 with a second consecutive win in Macau, having finished as runner-up in F3.

## Super Formula History

Ticktum would get his first taste of the Super Formula Championship in 2018, with Honda, a partner of Red Bull in Formula One offering him a seat. Ticktum subsequently made his debut at the Sportsland Sugo race, although he would retire mid-race. Ticktum also appeared at the following race in Fuji, finishing eleventh, before full-season driver Nirei Fukuzumi returned for the rest of the campaign.

### Super Licence Search

For 2019 Ticktum was sent by the RBJT to race in Super Formula full time, requiring a handful of points to complete his F1 Super Licence. He was subsequently picked up by the factory Honda squad, Team Mugen, with Tomoki Nojiri selected as his teammate.

## Full Super Formula Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Dan Ticktum's career in Super Formula in statistical form.

### Super Formula Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Dan Ticktum during their SF career:

 2019 | Team Mugen | 15

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Dan Ticktum's full Super Formula record.

 8th

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 'THE RED BULL JUNIOR TEAM AND THE HONDA FORMULA DREAM PROJECT', *juniorteam.redbull.com*, (Red Bull, 05/12/2018), https://juniorteam.redbull.com/m/article/red-bull-junior-team-and-honda-formula-dream-project, (Accessed 25/04/2019)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Ban15`
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 'Daniel Ticktum', *driverdb.com*, (DriverDB AB, 2019), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/daniel-ticktum/, (Accessed 08/05/2019)
4. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy, 'Red Bull scolds Ticktum after Schumacher comments', *motorsport.com*, (Motorsport Network, 28/09/2018), https://www.motorsport.com/formula-european-masters/news/red-bull-scolds-ticktum-after-schumacher-comments/3184778/, (Accessed 08/05/2019)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Elliot Wood, 'Red Bull junior Dan Ticktum to contest two Super Formula rounds', *formulascout.com*, (Formula Scout, 01/05/2018), http://www.formulascout.com/red-bull-junior-dan-ticktum-to-contest-two-super-formula-rounds/42534, (Accessed 08/05/2019)
6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Sug18R`
7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Fuj18R`

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