Christian Roger Xavier Marie Joseph Ghislain Goethals (4 August 1928 in Heule – 26 February 2003 in Kortrijk) was a racing driver from Belgium. Goethals competed as an amateur in sports car races, driving a Porsche Spyder during the 1950s.
His best results were a second-place finish with his brother in the 1956 1500cc class event in Reims, and a win in the same class the following year at Forez. Goethals acquired a Cooper-Climax and entered it in the Formula Two class of the 1958 German Grand Prix, but retired from the race. He did not participate in another Formula One Grand Prix, and returned to sports cars, with notable finishes in 1960 of fifth in the Buenos Aires 1000 km and second in the GP de Spa.
He retired from racing later in the season. He established a racing team called Écurie Éperon d’Or to participate in the 1958 German Grand Prix where he raced in a Cooper T43. Info from Wiki
Eric Hautekeete – photo and info
1988 this is a special one, in 1988 I had a interview with Belgian racing driver Christian Goethals .
He was most know in endurance races with Porsches. In 1958 he entered private with his own team “ECURIE EPERON D’ OR” the GP of Germany (Nurburgring) with a Cooper T43 – he retired on lap 4 with fuel pump problems. That was his only Grand Prix.
We talked for about 2 hours , lots of things from the fifties very interesting, he died in 2003. Pictures were taken in his house, I’m next to him in the seat.
