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

[paulguitar]

LP670 said:

Sounds like a narcissist, then again so do most F1 drivers. However, i did find it was quite entertaining listening to his rant, was McEnroe-esque.

I can't think of any F1 driver who is anything like this.

[HustleRussell]

Cannot believe that this character can still call himself a professional racing driver after all of his many episodes.

Anyone who is joining this topic late should be informed that Ticktum has in the past deliberately crashed into a competitor behind a safety car. His sthousery is not limited to being an absolute to everyone on team radio.

[CoolHands]

n3il123 said:

CoolHands said:

Reminds me of George Russell for some reason

Its the voice I think

That and the manner of speaking; and the way he says noone else on this grid can do what he can! Although George doesn’t say it I’m convinced he thinks in the same way!

[Gad-Westy]

I hope his race engineer is well paid. What a job that must be.

[thegreenhell]

CoolHands said:

That and the manner of speaking; and the way he says noone else on this grid can do what he can! Although George doesn’t say it I’m convinced he thinks in the same way!

Every F1 driver thinks it.

[MustangGT]

CoolHands said:

That and the manner of speaking; and the way he says noone else on this grid can do what he can! Although George doesn’t say it I’m convinced he thinks in the same way!

In a way he is correct. Nobody else ran out of electricity.........

[Dingu]

He isn’t even a very good racing driver. Bang average at best and a dreadful attitude. Why any team bothers to employ him I have no idea. Waste of a drive.

[CoolHands]

Dingu said:

He isn’t even a very good racing driver. Bang average at best and a dreadful attitude. Why any team bothers to employ him I have no idea. Waste of a drive.

NO OTHER DRIVER ON THE GRID CAN DO THAT

HE TOLD YOU THAT NOW!!11!

Come 11th that is. You clearly weren’t listening

[Petrus1983]

MustangGT said:

CoolHands said:

That and the manner of speaking; and the way he says noone else on this grid can do what he can! Although George doesn’t say it I’m convinced he thinks in the same way!

In a way he is correct. Nobody else ran out of electricity.........

Ultimately even as a driver you're part of a team. And the way he spoke to the team was awful and disrespectful. He didn't suggest "we need a de-brief", instead he ordered them to get him a taxi. And I hope that taxi ride was as long as the Fresh Princes. If I was the team owner I'd bin him - there's always 'new' talent with money around the corner.

[Dingu]

CoolHands said:

Dingu said:

He isn’t even a very good racing driver. Bang average at best and a dreadful attitude. Why any team bothers to employ him I have no idea. Waste of a drive.

NO OTHER DRIVER ON THE GRID CAN DO THAT

HE TOLD YOU THAT NOW!!11!

Come 11th that is. You clearly weren’t listening

[Nickp82]

paulguitar said:

I can't think of any F1 driver who is anything like this.

Yuki likes a bit of a radio outburst but by and large seems to be not a total nobber.

[aponting389]

Dingu said:

He isn’t even a very good racing driver. Bang average at best and a dreadful attitude. Why any team bothers to employ him I have no idea. Waste of a drive.

The reason is simple. I mentioned it earlier in the thread but as this is PH everybody knows better. He is, apparently, the fastest there is in the simulator. As this is PH everyone knows better and that doesn’t mean anything, but in truth it means a lot and lots of people would put him in their car to get it further up the grid.

[Dingu]

aponting389 said:

Dingu said:

He isn’t even a very good racing driver. Bang average at best and a dreadful attitude. Why any team bothers to employ him I have no idea. Waste of a drive.

The reason is simple. I mentioned it earlier in the thread but as this is PH everybody knows better. He is, apparently, the fastest there is in the simulator. As this is PH everyone knows better and that doesn’t mean anything, but in truth it means a lot and lots of people would put him in their car to get it further up the grid.

Proof that being quick in a sim doesn’t necessarily translate to good racing driver.

[aponting389]

Dingu said:

Proof that being quick in a sim doesn’t necessarily translate to good racing driver.

Correct, but it answers the question that people can’t keep asking

[mat205125]

Nickp82 said:

paulguitar said:

I can't think of any F1 driver who is anything like this.

Yuki likes a bit of a radio outburst but by and large seems to be not a total nobber.

I don't get that impression at all from Tsunoda.

Maybe I just grant a little more latitude for language barriers, and minimal English vocabulary.

[Zarco]

Just heard the radio rant. Comes across as a completely entitled bell end. Wish the team had told him to wind his neck in and find his own taxi.

[Frimley111R]

Zarco said:

Just heard the radio rant. Comes across as a completely entitled bell end. Wish the team had told him to wind his neck in and find his own taxi.

It was hilarious too though!

[Sandpit Steve]

mat205125 said:

Nickp82 said:

paulguitar said:

I can't think of any F1 driver who is anything like this.

Yuki likes a bit of a radio outburst but by and large seems to be not a total nobber.

I don't get that impression at all from Tsunoda.

Maybe I just grant a little more latitude for language barriers, and minimal English vocabulary.

Yuki is funny, and leaned most of the English he knows from hanging out with a bunch of mechanics, who taught him every bad word in the book!

Dan Tantrum, on the other hand, is a complete and utter arse, to the point where it's surprising that anyone actually wants to work with him at this point.

[Gad-Westy]

Sandpit Steve said:

mat205125 said:

Nickp82 said:

paulguitar said:

I can't think of any F1 driver who is anything like this.

Yuki likes a bit of a radio outburst but by and large seems to be not a total nobber.

I don't get that impression at all from Tsunoda.

Maybe I just grant a little more latitude for language barriers, and minimal English vocabulary.

Yuki is funny, and leaned most of the English he knows from hanging out with a bunch of mechanics, who taught him every bad word in the book!

Dan Tantrum, on the other hand, is a complete and utter arse, to the point where it's surprising that anyone actually wants to work with him at this point.

It is surprising that he still gets drives. Being fast is obviously part of that but he must be an absolute liability in terms of sponsorship. Who's want their company to be associated with that dhead?

[EDLT]

mat205125 said:

Nickp82 said:

paulguitar said:

I can't think of any F1 driver who is anything like this.

Yuki likes a bit of a radio outburst but by and large seems to be not a total nobber.

I don't get that impression at all from Tsunoda.

Maybe I just grant a little more latitude for language barriers, and minimal English vocabulary.

I saw a thread on reddit where someone used a bot to count the number of radio messages between each driver an the pit during the race, Nyck de Vries had by far the lowest number however it was noted that it was difficult for the bot to pick out his voice over background noise. Maybe Tsunoda sounds so angry because he has to spend two hours screaming over a st radio so they can actually hear him.

On Ticktum being the fastest on the sim: There are some youtubers who'd absolutely school him and yet they aren't getting drives in real cars.