The 24-year-old Briton will return for his third season in the all-electric championship having spent the previous two campaigns with NIO 333, which has been rebranded as Electric Racing Technologies (ERT) for 2024.
Ticktum finished in the points seven times last year, three of those on the bounce in the final races, but he believes even reaching the points this term will be difficult after he and team-mate Sergio Sette Camara struggled for pace in pre-season testing.
“It’s nice to have some racing to do [after six months since the last race in London], but I’ll cut to it, it’s going to be a hard year,” Ticktum told Autosport.
“I’ve just got to try and smile and get through this year. I think the year after is going to start to get more positive for the team. I’m just going to try and do the best I can.”
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He added: “I think we’re happy to take a bit more risk this year in races where potentially we can score a few points.
“I don’t want to sound defeatist, but we’ve run simulations, we know where we are and I think last year we really did the best we could and I think other people weren’t quite in their window as much as maybe we were.
Source: Autosport