By: Thomas Günsel.

After packing our mobile home Dirk Wischnewski, Bertram Kessler, my pitman Johann and me started the long trip to the Euro B in Ampuis next to Lyon. We arrived on Thuesday at the nice track in Ampuis. On this day we had 2 practice runs. Dirk and me started with the setup on the last weekend, were in win the 4th qualification round of the german nationals. My car worked realy well right from the beginning, also Dirk´s NT1.
But we had both some technical prolems. So we concentrate on learing the track because that was realy technical.
Wednesday started with heavy rain so everybody has to start again with the setup when it becomes dry again. I only choose softer tires for that conditions and we changed the rear anti roll bar from 2,4mm to 2,6mm to minimize the understeering.

Thursday was the day of timed practice. But again I had some problem. But we know that we will have the necessary pace if we find a solution for that problem because the car worked realy well and in dry condition the grip increase to a good level. So we limited the down stop in front and rear a little bit and now the car was perfect. The first two quali heats ended with engine cut off and I found myself in the end of the field. After that we changed the engine and that was the beginning of a "perfect weekend". I tried to make a clean run to get a good result and ended up on 12th place at the end of the day. On Saturday morning I had perfect conditions for a fast run but a small driving mistake avoid the 3rd place. So I ended on 15 in 1/2 final. The rest of the day we prepared the cars for the final day. I completely rebuilt the car but there were no damaged parts I have to change after the whole week. After preparing the tires we were well prepared  for the 1/2 final where I have to start from the 6th prosition. After two minutes of the 20 minutes final I was in the lead a pulled away from the rest of the field and win the 1/2 final with one lap.

So I made the final of the Euro B 2008 and had to start from 6 again. Dirk started from 5. In the 1 hour break we prepared the car again and than it was time for the final! In the final we had a clean start and after 4 minutes I was on 2nd position. But after some little problems in the first two pit stops I lose some time and fall back to 6th postion. But Dirk an me tried to run the 45 minutes final with on set of tires and that was the right way. After 25 minutes he was in the lead followd by myself. After 30 minutes I had a small crash in the pit lane with another that cost come time again and I found myself on 5th place after that stop.
Now I pushed realy hard, catched car by car and in the end I finished 3rd one lap behind Dirk who became European Champion B 2008 with the perfect working NT1.

I would like to say thank you to my pit crew, NOVAROSSI and Bertram Kessler from SMI Motorsport, Xray Mario and Juraj.