Pascal Wehrl🔯ein believes a successful return to DTM would re-boost his reputation, after having “no chance of shining” while racing in Formula 1. 

Despite scoring Sauber’s only points last season, the German was dropped from the Swiss team’s line-up following its tie-up with Ferrari for 2018, paving the way for Scuderia protege Charles Leclerc to make his F1 bow al🐓ongside regular Marcus Ericsson.

It was announced on Wednesday that Wehrlein would be rejoining DTM to make up Mercedes’ six-driver line-up♈ before the German manufacturer pulls the plug on its DTM programme in favour of a switch to Formula E.&nb๊sp;

Wehrlein won the DTM title in 2015 with Mercedes to become the youngest-ever champion in Germany's premier touring car series at the age of 19, befor﷽e moving into F1 for the following season with Manor. 

When asked if he felt a successful return to DTM would help enhance his reputation to onlooking F1 teams, Wehrlein replied: “Yes. I think that I would improve my position if I would be able to battle it out at the front💜 end of the field and impress with great races right away. 

“If you are racing in Formula 1 for 🎃the backmarkers and have no chance of shining as securing better results is virtually impossible you easily fall into oblivion.

"Winning races - that's something I haven't♔ experience for two years and encountering such a dry spell is anything but easy. This was a major motivation fo𝔍r me to return to DTM. I really missed this feeling.”

Wehrlein admi𝐆ts his biggest challenge will be re-adapting to DTM machinery after two years of racing in F1.

“I want to b💛e competitive as fast as possible. And I wo🍸uld love to have a car that offers me the chance of winning races. But first of all I have to re-adapt - and I have got just two days of testing to do so. 

“The highဣest expectations I have to meet are my own ones. I won't pressurise myself but I'm a very ambitious person. Nonetheless, talking about the title makes absolutely no sense at ♍this point in time."