Paul di Resta's 2018 championship camp🎉aign ended in disappointment after the Mercedes driver missed out on the DTM title by 22-points to his team mate Gary Paffett at the Hockenheimring.

The 🍃former F1-star arrivꩵed into final weekend of the year with a four-point advantage as the championship leader ahead of team mate Paffett.

However, while Paffett took the title after finishing no lower than fourth during the two ra🌞ces over the week🌜end, Di Resta ultimately slipped to third in the standings behind Audi's Rene Rast after registering just four-points to his name.

Nevertheless, despite his disappointment, Di Resta was magnanimous in defeat and congrat🀅ulated Paffett over his title success.

“Unfortuna🅷tely, that was a disappointing end to the season for me. When you’re in the lead overall ahead of the final round, then you also obviously ꦫwant to finish the season as champion," said Di Resta.

"It was not meant to be, unfortunately. It was simply not my wee༺kend. Many congratulations to Gary on winnin🅰g his second DTM title."

Di Resta's third place finish in the drivers' sta♔n🌌dings still helped Mercedes end their final year in the DTM in perfect fashion after the Stuttgart manufacturer wrapped up all three titles on offer.

"At least we achieved our goal as a t𓆏eam, the ch꧙ampion is a Mercedes driver. Many thanks to the guys for all their hard work this season. They absolutely deserved to win the treble.”