Dan Ticktum has been handed a formal disciplinary warning by his own Cupra Kiro Formula E team following a fractious Monaco E-Prix weekend last month.

Two pole positions underlined Ticktum's pace in Monaco, but the six points he secured for those were the only ones he managed all weekend.

Penalties in both races hampered his cause, while Ticktum also referenced handling struggles and what he felt was a "pretty average" strategy in both races.

But it was Ticktum's radio rants and absconding from the circuit on the Saturday that is believed to have forced Kiro into action - issuing a second formal reprimand of the season following previous discussions in the wake of January's Mexico City race, when Ticktum's comments led to series chief Jeff Dodds summoning him for talks.

The Race understands that the review steps, which are part of the team's formal mid-season review policy, relate to Madrid, Berlin and Monaco and are not exclusively about Monaco.

"We have reviewed a number of topics with Dan openly since Monaco and are issuing a second formal reprimand of the season," said Kiro team principal Russell O'Hagan.

"We will be working together to adopt an improved approach, with more of what we need from him."

Ticktum left the track immediately after parking his car in parc ferme after race one on Saturday afternoon in Monaco. He stopped briefly at the team pit to change, and was said to have 'rearranged' his driver changing area, before leaving and missing both his mandatory media commitments and also his post-race team debrief.

Expanding on the warning, O'Hagan said the team had discussed its own operations and approach after the Monaco results slipped away, but also Ticktum's attitude.

“Having taken some time since Monaco to review the season to date, we have two clear takeaways," he said.

"One is to really understand how we are approaching everything holistically with Dan. We are incredibly quick over one lap in all sessions, but falling short of our potential in the races, where the points are awarded. There is just no room for imperfections at the sharp end with the type of racing we have in Formula E, so we have to review and potentially slightly redefine our approach, targets and metrics.

"The second point is to ensure Dan's frustrations and energy are harnessed constructively. We understand them, but as a team, we expect everyone to uphold the standards of professionalism, respect and teamwork that are fundamental to how we operate and best perform as an organisation.

"What is equally important to say is that we also recognise our responsibility as a team to give Dan the platform and support he needs to deliver at his best, because there have been a number of occasions this season where we should have done better for him.

"He is a hugely talented driver and a very important part of the team. We trust that the process we are now in will deliver improvements from him on and off track, and we can have a very strong second half of the season together."

Should Ticktum go astray again in the coming races, Kiro could feasibly bench or even fire its driver, although this is believed not to have been specifically discussed within the team at present.

It does have a lack of immediate replacements, too, with only F1 Academy race winner Bianca Bustamante on the team's books as a development driver.

But Kiro could call up former McLaren and Maserati driver Jake Hughes, who tested with the team during the most recent off-season. Hughes was in line for the second seat alongside Ticktum before Pepe Marti - 11th in the championship, three places and 12 points ahead of Ticktum - was signed just prior to the pre-season test at Valencia last October.

The possible placement of reigning DTM champion Ayhancan Guven at the team by Porsche cannot presently happen as he has not yet fully qualified for the necessary e-licence to compete in Formula E.

Is Ticktum on brink of Formula E exit?

Considering he's proved to be the undisputed king of qualifying in Monaco, with a superb brace of pole positions at the home of professional bragging rights among drivers, Ticktum not having a Formula E drive next season seems an absurd prospect.

But this is a career without convention, nor structure. With the brilliance comes the petulance, and so again at Monaco earlier this month the promise was not delivered upon and the bad temper flared again.

That isn't to say that all the chaos was Ticktum's fault, but the reaction to the disappointment was as visceral as it was inevitable as it descended into a negative spiral on track and off it.

So, what might all this mean for Ticktum and Formula E?

The Race Formula E Podcast recently described his Formula E journey so far as a kind of career rehab. If there is a step-by-step process in that rehabilitation then it appears this is way beyond the usual seven-step one. Ticktum sort of thrives on a natural inclination to interweave spikes of speed and results with regular emotional blow-ups.

Perhaps this is actually his way of locating the necessary chemistry to feed his clearly exceptional talent. But why does one have to come in collaboration with the other, and why so much?

It is a question that has had Kiro management scratching their heads for much of the last five and a half years, since it was the NIO 333 team before morphing into ERT and subsequently its current guise. Some within the team feel as though they have now exhausted all options in relation to Ticktum understanding his professional responsibilities, as well perhaps as his own ambition - which now appears completely split from that of his team.

A foul-mouthed rampage came earlier this season at the Mexico City E-Prix, when a rightly disappointed Ticktum, after getting hit in the race via a four-car melee, lashed out at the driving standards in the championship and the stewarding of it. Amid that maelstrom a particularly crude profanity was used. It rhymed with the surname of the 1976 Formula 1 world champion, James Hunt.

That caused considerable ire and concern at Formula E headquarters, with Ticktum summoned by the CEO, Jeff Dodds, for a chat which was triggered by the use of that particular expletive.

Less than five months on, Dodds will have little appetite for repeating himself again after Ticktum ranted in Monaco: "This championship is just s***. It's the worst championship ever."

Now the behaviour has got too much even for his own team. One which at present is weighing up its driver line-up for next season with what are known to be several options, one of which includes sticking rather than twisting. But this latest disciplinary action casts a huge amount of doubt on whether the team will actually go to a sixth season with what has previously been considered a key asset.

Ticktum, who's just turned 27, can still be that but the team needs a much more stable presence in the cockpit.

Yes, he felt hard done by in Monaco due to his Porsche's propensity to overheat its tyres. But, as one rival team boss told The Race just after the Monaco Sunday race, "maybe it would have been better for him today if he'd bothered to have attended his debrief yesterday, instead of storming off and sulking".

That was a salient point and one not lost on the Formula E paddock, which mostly looks upon Ticktum with a mix of amused curiosity and genuine occasional reverie at his flashes of scorching pace.

But with the Gen4 era set to involve the addition of new talent from Formula 2, Ticktum's high-risk/only-occasional-reward offering might not be enough to keep him on the grid.

With few if any actual options other than Kiro, even Ticktum would be a fool not to heed his own team's warning.