The 24-year-old Briton is out of contract when the present marketing campaign involves an finish in July which may even mark three years of racing in System E.
Throughout that point, Ticktum has raced with NIO 333 and beneath its new moniker, ERT, throughout the 2024 season.
Ticktum recorded his best-ever end result final month with fourth total within the opening Misano E-Prix, however additional sturdy outcomes have been troublesome because of the workforce’s comparative lack of tempo towards different outfits.
Regardless of struggling, Ticktum is eager to stay within the championship with ERT having constructed a powerful basis with the workforce.
“I believe the workforce is fairly eager to maintain me which is a pleasant feeling, I really feel like two-and-a-half-three years with this workforce, I really feel like I’m very trusted which is sweet,” Ticktum advised Autosport.
“My suggestions could be very typically fully listened to and applied which is sweet and with out sounding too smug, I’m fairly good at that, pushing the automotive ahead.
“I had 4, 5 years within the Crimson Bull sim doing System 1 improvement stuff so that basically helped my suggestions.
Dan Ticktum, ERT System E Group, ERT X24, Lucas di Grassi, ABT CUPRA System E Group, M9Electro
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“Despite the fact that the outcomes aren’t 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 workforce, I do know there’s lots of issues within the background, to try to carry the workforce ahead in all kinds of areas.
“I wish to construct on a journey right here, it will be fairly good so hopefully we will get one thing higher within the subsequent few years.”
Previous to System E, Ticktum was a Crimson Bull Junior for a number of seasons with the vitality drink model backing him in championships akin to Tremendous System and System 2 earlier than dropping its assist in 2019.
Having misplaced out on the prospect 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 lots of drive and motivation for racing after the entire F1 state of affairs didn’t fairly work out and there wasn’t actually the rest I significantly wished to realize in motorsport,” he mentioned.
“My ardour has all the time been vehicles, not racing. Don’t get me flawed, I like racing I’m not going to take a seat right here and say that I don’t take pleasure in what I’m doing however for the primary yr, I did wrestle.
Dan Ticktum, ERT System E Group, 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 targets.
“I believe the probabilities of me staying right here so long as potential are good odds.
“In 10 years time, I will probably be coming to the tip of my profession however at that time, I wish to be the kind of [Lucas] di Grassi of the grid and have a very good contract in place the place you’re effectively revered and hopefully maintain profitable some races and hopefully have received a championship.”