{"id":409316,"date":"2026-01-13T02:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409316\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:01:23","slug":"petulant-children-formula-e-star-explains-major-radio-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409316\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Petulant children’: Formula E star explains major radio meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDan Ticktum was taken out by a Turn 5 pile-up in Mexico. Image: Formula E<\/p>\n

The Cupra Kiro driver is scoreless from the first two races of the new Formula E series, his latest misfortune coming in last weekend\u2019s Mexico race.<\/p>\n

On that occasion he was undone by a chain reaction crash at the Turn 5 hairpin that also involved eventual winner Nick Cassidy<\/a>, Antonio Felix da Costa and Maximilian Guenther.<\/p>\n

That followed an earlier incident with da Costa that he claims cost him several positions.<\/p>\n

Following the race-ending crash, Ticktum reportedly unloaded on the radio, calling his rivals a \u201cbunch of c***s\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey race like petulant children,\u201d he told his engineer. \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s pathetic, then the race director just doesn\u2019t give anyone penalties.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had enough. It\u2019s not a category of talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ticktum then doubled down on that point of view in a video posted to social media after the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to not hit my head against a wall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was running P5 or P6 at the time after a good opening few laps, got hit, lost three places \u2013 that driver didn\u2019t receive a penalty. I don\u2019t understand how you can be in a world championship when someone just crashes into the back of you and they don\u2019t get a penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety car came out for another incident and then couple laps later there was another incident down in Turn 5 and I was just a victim of it. That was my race over, [because I] had suspension damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now we need to get onto the hot topic, which is the level of stewarding, or lack of stewarding, in Formula E at the moment. I know we\u2019re not quite F1, but we are branded as a world championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say too much what happens in driver briefings, but essentially they said from Sao Paulo that they flat out missed things. We\u2019re in a world championship, you can\u2019t be missing things as the FIA \u2013 it\u2019s just not good enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople [are] just getting away with far too much and that is just leading to the races being like rental kart hacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople just send moves, hoping for the best, people\u2019s wings off here and there and it\u2019s just chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Adding to Ticktum\u2019s frustration is that he\u2019s behind his teammate Pepe Marti in the standings, despite Marti crashing spectacularly out of the season-opener in Brazil due to a full-course caution misjudgement, which meant he was off the back of the grid in Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want it to go too far the other way and ruin the racing, but at the moment it\u2019s not right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy teammate scored points, good on him, but to sum up Formula E, or the first two rounds, he obviously had an enormous crash in Sao Paulo and that meant he had to start at the back of the grid and he had a stop-go penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve qualified second and sixth in the first two races and my teammate is beating me in the championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you may as well not qualify, chill at the back, wait for everyone to crash into each other, save energy and come through from there. A very frustrating start to the season.\u201d<\/p>\n


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