Career
Goethals competed as an amateur in sports car races, driving a Porsche Spyder during the 1950s. 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 General Practice 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. Goethals was the youngest child of René Goethals (1876-1928), a noble man and mayer of Heule near Kortrijk in Belgium and of Jeanne Mols (1884-1968).
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