The 24-year-old Briton is out of contract when the present marketing campaign involves an finish in July which will even mark three years of racing in System E.
Throughout that point, Ticktum has raced with NIO 333 and beneath its new moniker, ERT, through the 2024 season.
Ticktum recorded his best-ever outcome final month with fourth general within the opening Misano E-Prix, however additional sturdy outcomes have been troublesome because of the staff’s comparative lack of tempo towards different outfits.
Regardless of struggling, Ticktum is eager to stay within the championship with ERT having constructed a robust basis with the staff.
“I feel the staff is fairly eager to maintain me which is a pleasant feeling, I really feel like two-and-a-half-three years with this staff, I really feel like I’m very trusted which is sweet,” Ticktum instructed Autosport.
“My suggestions may be very typically fully listened to and applied which is sweet and with out sounding too boastful, I’m fairly good at that, pushing the automotive ahead.
“I had 4, 5 years within the Purple Bull sim doing System 1 growth stuff so that actually helped my suggestions.
Dan Ticktum, ERT System E Workforce, ERT X24, Lucas di Grassi, ABT CUPRA System E Workforce, M9Electro
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“Although the outcomes usually are not essentially there I really feel a bit happier right here than I did final yr.
“There’s some potential issues within the pipeline for the staff, I do know there’s plenty of issues within the background, to try to carry the staff ahead in all kinds of areas.
“I want to construct on a journey right here, it could be fairly good so hopefully we will get one thing higher within the subsequent few years.”
Previous to System E, Ticktum was a Purple Bull Junior for a number of seasons with the vitality drink model backing him in championships reminiscent of Tremendous System and System 2 earlier than dropping its help in 2019.
Having misplaced out on the possibility of reaching F1 on the time, Ticktum admits that discovering motivation to compete in System E was troublesome initially when he joined in 2021 however he has since embraced the championship.
“I misplaced plenty of drive and motivation for racing after the entire F1 situation didn’t fairly work out and there wasn’t actually anything I notably wished to attain in motorsport,” he stated.
“My ardour has all the time been vehicles, not racing. Don’t get me incorrect, I really like racing I’m not going to sit down right here and say that I don’t take pleasure in what I’m doing however for the primary yr, I did battle.
Dan Ticktum, ERT System E Workforce, ERT X24
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“Now I’m beginning to recover from the previous which takes a little bit of time and establishing different objectives.
“I feel the probabilities of me staying right here so long as attainable are good odds.
“In 10 years time, I will probably be coming to the top of my profession however at that time, I wish to be the type of [Lucas] di Grassi of the grid and have a very good contract in place the place you’re effectively revered and hopefully preserve profitable some races and hopefully have gained a championship.”