Dan Ticktum Can't Test - Boohoo or suck it up sunshine?

[Vaud]

coppice said:

The reek of a lynch mob , nothing like an attack of self righteous outrage . But here's the thing - plenty of racing drivers have misbehaved in the past,and some of them have gone on to great things. Young men do daft things - let him who is without sin and all that....

I think he should be allowed to race again. He is in effect still serving his punishment, which I still think was a tad lenient, but that said, when he does qualify for testing I will be interested in the results.

[Blatter]

The article said that it was a two year ban, with the second year suspended. My understanding of a suspended sentence is that it you commit a further "transgression", then the suspended part of the sentence is imposed.

I imagine that will keep him on the straight and narrow.

[Kraken]

There's misbehaving and misbehaving. Disregarding that amount of yellow flags (single and double), white flags, SC boards and overtaking most of the field to catch and deliberately drive into another competitor is something that I have never heard of anyone doing anything remotely like.

I totally understand an attack of the red mist. I've been there plenty of times in racing but I can't get my head around anyone in a race car being that angry that they could pass that many warning flags and other competitors without calming down enough to realise they were terribly in the wrong.

[Smitters]

coppice said:

The reek of a lynch mob , nothing like an attack of self righteous outrage . But here's the thing - plenty of racing drivers have misbehaved in the past,and some of them have gone on to great things. Young men do daft things - let him who is without sin and all that....

Let him who is without sin is a great point...

I guess I was interested in views on whether having broken the rules, and been punished, he should be given special consideration because RB want him testing and, because of the nature of his punishment, he doesn't (yet) qualify. To me, that's the ongoing part of the punishment.

Do I have a problem with him testing, driving, racing? No. But only when he has the requisite experience on his licence and not just because Christian Horner wants him to and will pull some strings.

[thegreenhell]

Oh well, he's failed to win the F3 title so he still doesn't have enough points to be allowed in an F1 car next year.

[Smitters]

thegreenhell said:

Oh well, he's failed to win the F3 title so he still doesn't have enough points to be allowed in an F1 car next year.

I'm still assuming there fill be string pulling and he'll get some seat time. And it'll piss me off.

[Vaud]

Smitters said:

I'm still assuming there fill be string pulling and he'll get some seat time. And it'll piss me off.

I doubt it, I think his brand is a bit toxic to pull the "exceptional circumstances" trick.

[turbomoped]

Had no opinion on him either way but after trying to watch f3 coverage on the youtube channel it seems every other word is ticktum regardless of whats on the tv screen.
There is obviously a giant push to turn the world ticktum by red bull although it could end up being a sort of aversion therapy where stress is induces on hearing the name and I could only be bothered to watch one of the three races.

[Smitters]

Vaud said:

I doubt it, I think his brand is a bit toxic to pull the "exceptional circumstances" trick.

Hope you're right.

[telecat]

Smitters said:

Vaud said:

I doubt it, I think his brand is a bit toxic to pull the "exceptional circumstances" trick.

Hope you're right.

I was not happy about the title winners move in the first race trying to push Ticktum into the wall. Shades of his dads move on Barrichello a little while back. And done when he knew he would have to come in because of damage.

[anonymous-user]

telecat said:

Smitters said:

Vaud said:

I doubt it, I think his brand is a bit toxic to pull the "exceptional circumstances" trick.

Hope you're right.

I was not happy about the title winners move in the first race trying to push Ticktum into the wall. Shades of his dads move on Barrichello a little while back. And done when he knew he would have to come in because of damage.

Knowing Ticktum’s history it may have been a preemptive strike thing?

[Norfolkit]

telecat said:

Smitters said:

Vaud said:

I doubt it, I think his brand is a bit toxic to pull the "exceptional circumstances" trick.

Hope you're right.

I was not happy about the title winners move in the first race trying to push Ticktum into the wall. Shades of his dads move on Barrichello a little while back. And done when he knew he would have to come in because of damage.

Not a conspiracy theorist but there was a remarkable upturn in Schumy Jnr's form from mid season onwards, strangely his team mate (one of them anyway) had the same thing happen to him.

[JonChalk]

Here's my summary:

• Young racing driver does stupid thing
• Serves punishment quietly, accepting it without moaning about it
• Learns from punishment
• Serves suspended part of punishment without a hint of issues
• Continues to improve after suspended sentence period ends
• Continues to get support from Red Bull, and on F1 radar
• Does a pretty good job fighting son of famous racing driver who is equally (if not better) supported
• Doesn't really talk about F1 in public too much
• Young racing driver doesn't have enough superlicense points to test or race in F1
• Whiny F1 boss talks about it a lot and makes a huge issue of it, even though young racing driver hasn't really talked about it.

To my mind Ticktum has worked through his issues, served his punishment, retains the support of Marko and (now) has done little for anyone to suggest he is "toxic" or not deserving.

His comments about Schumacher's "uptick" in performance are no worse (or better) than the permanent inter-team squabbling in F1 about performance thinly disguised as cheating.

[Vaud]

JonChalk said:

To my mind Ticktum has worked through his issues, served his punishment, retains the support of Marko and (now) has done little for anyone to suggest he is "toxic" or not deserving.

I don't deny his talents.

However, I think he is toxic for sponsors in a a modern Youtube era. Things that would have been forgotten in a pre-digital era are trickier these days. Brands look for sentiment analysis, etc when considering investments and if the first video hit is very negative then it's an uphill struggle.

If you are a brand looking to invest do you see son of Schumacher (a mixed brand but 7x WDC) or a risk with Ticktum?

I wonder what his punishment would have been for his actions in an F1 car. A one year ban would have been the starting point.

[JonChalk]

Vaud said:

I don't deny his talents.

However, I think he is toxic for sponsors in a a modern Youtube era. Things that would have been forgotten in a pre-digital era are trickier these days. Brands look for sentiment analysis, etc when considering investments and if the first video hit is very negative then it's an uphill struggle.

If you are a brand looking to invest do you see son of Schumacher (a mixed brand but 7x WDC) or a risk with Ticktum?

I wonder what his punishment would have been for his actions in an F1 car. A one year ban would have been the starting point.

Your point is valid; in the eyes of some people, he would be considered less "worthy" or of less "value" relatively, than say Mick Schumacher.

But I believe he (Ticktum) knows and accepts that his fate - other seem less capable of letting it go.

[coppice]

Vaud said:

However, I think he is toxic for sponsors in a a modern Youtube era. Things that would have been forgotten in a pre-digital era are trickier these days. Brands look for sentiment analysis, etc when considering investments and if the first video hit is very negative then it's an uphill struggle.

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Perfect summary of the reason so much has been lost in motor sport. I liked things rather more when we had drivers and not bloody 'brands' . I think the only people who really think sponsorship is 'investment ' are those who have spent too much time with the Ron Dennises of the world.

[BaronVonVaderham]

Kraken said:

There's misbehaving and misbehaving. Disregarding that amount of yellow flags (single and double), white flags, SC boards and overtaking most of the field to catch and deliberately drive into another competitor is something that I have never heard of anyone doing anything remotely like.

I totally understand an attack of the red mist. I've been there plenty of times in racing but I can't get my head around anyone in a race car being that angry that they could pass that many warning flags and other competitors without calming down enough to realise they were terribly in the wrong.

Exactly why he should’ve been given a lifetime ban for such a severe incident.

[Vaud]

coppice said:

Perfect summary of the reason so much has been lost in motor sport. I liked things rather more when we had drivers and not bloody 'brands' . I think the only people who really think sponsorship is 'investment ' are those who have spent too much time with the Ron Dennises of the world.

I disagree. Brands invest into someone like Lewis Hamilton because they think the attachment of his image will drive sales, either directly or indirectly. It is hard to measure, but they have a LOT of sales and marketing data points to allow them to measure impact of specific campaigns.

We've had it for so long now, and the costs are so high that we can't put the genie back in the bottle.

[Durzel]

Tough st. Actions have consequences.

He's not been banned from ever participating in F1, he's just not qualified for it this year.

[coppice]

But it's all utter bks really - outside the massively over exposed F1 hardly anybody , except hard core enthusiasts, now little and cares even less about lower formulae. And as we don't kill or maim drivers much in F1any more, we have a very low turnover , as well as thinner grids.

The irony is that Billy monger gets more coverage than the rest of F3 combined , if not in the way anybody would have wished