Formula 2 racing driver Ticktum first joined the Williams Academy as a development driver in December 2019 after leaving the Red Bull junior team in the middle of the year.
However, on Tuesday it emerged that the 22-year-old was fired from Williams’ junior driver academy last week.
“Thanks to Williams for the opportunity,” Ticktum wrote on Instagram. “Hope to cooperate in the future.”
There remain Jack Aitken, Jamie Chadwick and Roy Nissany as the remaining members of the Williams Driver Academy. Aitken is the only one currently holding an FIA super license, having made a one-off Grand Prix appearance with Williams in Sakhir last year.
The team is known to be considering a number of drivers for a racing seat in 2022 and will postpone any decision until Mercedes calls the future of George Russell.
In 2017, Ticktum won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award – now known as the Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award – and is fourth in this year’s F2 classification with a win in Monaco and four other podium places.
Dan Ticktum, Carlin
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News of Ticktum’s departure comes days after he made critical remarks about Williams driver Nicholas Latifi while playing a video game on a live stream on his Twitch channel.
Ticktum sang a rhyme in which he called Latifi “poo” and responded to a comment that he was only in F2 and Latifi in F1 by saying, “He’s older than me, he paid to get there . “
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Ticktum continued: “It’s not like divisions, it’s not like League 1 and the Premier League. That’s not how it works. You get through the ranks, I don’t know, whatever.
“Just because you can’t get into Formula 1 in motorsport doesn’t mean you weren’t good enough to get there.”
But Ticktum wrote on Instagram that he and Williams broke up “prior to the latest Latifi-related incident,” just so people would know.
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