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UP with Ken after your customers has Here’s his four-point policy on they are in difficulty and be
Newton already been written, but this subject:
 approachable and human.
sometimes it’s the way it’s
FRONT 1. Always be fair in your And probably the most
expressed that makes an
own dealings, unfairness pertinent advice for an auto
impact.
at the top can demoralise a workshop was never allow
In one of my clean-outs workshop
 two people to do a job which
recently, I came across some one could do.
2. Never hire relatives
No matter how old you pages that I had copied or friends (don’t fire your When you are looking for
are, you can do with many years ago from a little wife/partner who runs the staff, hire people who are
a mentor. booklet, published in 1985, workshop office – that’s a bigger than you are. If you
called Blood, Brains and
Even though I am now in partnership) follow that policy, your
Beer, the autobiography of
the ‘experienced’ category David Ogilvy, the man Time 
3. Sack incurable political workshop will become a
of wordsmithing, I still feel a magazine called ‘the most types
 business of giants.
great comfort to have a much sought-after wizard in today’s If you hire people who
more experienced person advertising industry’. Ogilvy 4. Crusade against paper are less than you are, you
looking over my shoulder. died in 1999. warfare. Encourage will become a business of
your people to air their
Let’s understand what a I would like to share some of disagreements face-to-face. midgets.
mentor is: someone who his wisdom with you, not just And learn to have fun.
imparts wisdom to and because it’s good to hear, David’s view was that if you David’s advice, ‘Get rid of sad
shares knowledge with a less but it is incredibly simple and plan to give superior service dogs who spread gloom’.
experienced colleague. You to your customers, you need
understandable. I hope David
can have many mentors. to make the most of your Finally, take heed of this old
excuses me for changing
own people. You do this Scottish proverb: Hard work
These days, most of my [advertising] agency to auto by giving them challenging never killed a man. Men die
mentors are unknown to me. workshop. opportunities, by recognising of boredom, psychological
Their wisdom is mostly in His take on office politics their achievements, giving conflict and disease. The
print. I absorb good advice, (read workshop politics)– them job enrichment and the harder people work the
wherever I find it. work hard to minimise office maximum responsibility. happier they are.
I’ve come to realise that all politics because they absorb Treat your young staff as Thanks David Ogilvy. I’ve
the good advice about how energy which can better be grown-ups and they will passed it on. Does that make
to run your business or look devoted to our clients. grow up. Help them when me a mentor?

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Cover Picture: Andy Goodall with his 19 year-old daughter Michelle. Both have Michelle’s thesis for her motorsport qualifications is based
written themselves into Australian motorsport history through their unique brand on her design and construction of a Formula Vee racing car,
of training and qualifications. Michelle is believed to be Australia’s only female
which is just six months away from going on a track. Checking
motorsport manager, being in charge of Andy Goodall Racing and the Australian
Institute of Motorsport racing teams. Michelle is also the curriculum writer for the her progress with the chassis of the racer is (from left) Andy
Institute. Other uncaptioned photographs in this story are of racing cars being Goodall, Brett Dickie and Shaun Trounson
built by students and supervised by Andy Goodall at the Institute of Motorsport.
All photography by Dean Trounson Media Development, Andy Goodall Racing.
Cover story Andy Goodall by Ken Newton
Motorsport wins
with the Andy
Goodall formula
A
ndy Goodall was driving around the spacious
paddocks in the Keilor district of Victoria in his own
car at age 11. It was very rural back then and nearby
Tullamarine airport hadn’t been thought of, so there was
plenty of room and besides, these were the days when boys
could be boys.
We mention this only because it provides something of an
explanation for a young country lad moving on to lead a
fascinating life around motor cars and motor engineering and
ultimately running one of Australia’s most prestigious academies
of automotive technology and motorsport. But like all stories of Australian Institute of Motorsport, a rather unique Australian
successful people, much of what happened to Andy was a bit of amalgam of a privately-owned automotive college and TAFE.
sheer luck and a lot of hard work. He certainly had a talent, but
His is a perfect partnership with Goulburn Ovens TAFE, one of the
it helped being in the right place at the right time and being seen
largest in regional Victoria. Andy has his own staff and so does
and nurtured by the right people. And when doors opened, Andy
Go TAFE, but students can share the facilities at both campuses
usually stepped inside.
and when specialist training of teachers is required for particular
He recalls some of his great mentors who, he said, were ‘flat out motorsport and advanced automotive subjects, Andy can provide
writing their own name’, but who could do amazing things with that too.
their hands and their minds. It’s not that he thought any less of
Andy Goodall as a brand name first appeared in 1979, when
people who could articulate and pump out great documents, but
he was barely 18 years old. He was already forging ahead in a
he quickly learnt that it was a well-balanced combination of the
factory-backed team as a team member, but took the plunge to
two that worked best.
become a privateer as well.
In Andy’s classrooms today, you will find that same philosophy. As
His training career started much later, after he had already
one of his students, Craig Shepley from Adelaide, said recently
accumulated his own impressive set of qualifications, which he
(TaT cover story Issue 31, February 2013), ‘Andy doesn’t believe
spends a lot of time upgrading to retain his teaching status. He
in a lot of bookwork. He believes you learn by practice and that
holds diplomas in Motorsport, Automotive Mechanical Technology,
you have to do it until it is perfect.’
Automotive Management and Education. He is an automotive
Andy Goodall is the owner of Andy Goodall Training and the engineer and holds a Graduate Certificate in Management.
Andy Goodall encourages
motorsport talent through
his Institute of Motorsport
scholarships. Two of his
stars are in this picture (from
left) Shaun Trounson, team
driver and trainer, Andy
Goodall, and Brett Dickie,
team development test driver
and trainer and a national
sports sedan champion
driver. Both were previous
students of the motorsport
program who gained
Diplomas in Motorsport and
are currently scholarship
recipients of full-time drives
in the racing team.
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But back
to the
beginning
As a teenager he couldn’t get enough of hotted-up cars. So he ‘It was a significant thing to be able to do,’ Andy said. ‘We were up
started tinkering. ‘I had a great ability to pull things apart, but I against some pretty professional teams, but we had our share of
didn’t have much talent putting them back together. Let’s say I success.’
was inquisitive,’ he recalls.
Andy not only owned the team, but was one of its drivers as well.
At secondary school, now aged 15, Andy joins a mechanical They raced in the Group C class of touring cars in the junior
appreciation class. One of his teachers senses talent and advises categories.
Andy to sit for a Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce
‘I had many great sponsors back then. I worked with a factory
(VACC) scholarship, which he wins.
team by day and prepared our own race cars in my spare time. It
So he becomes a VACC student and this is where coincidences gave me a good insight into how things worked in motorsport.’
begin to fashion his career.
With his racing team still ticking away in the background, Andy
Part of the VACC deal was that he spends four years working freelanced for a number of years, mainly building historic vintage
alternately with the four Australian car makers of the time. and racing cars for clients who he said had more money than
sense.
His first role is helping out on an engine assembly line. One of
the people in charge of the line also senses his talent, and asks ‘I think they treated these cars like jewellery because some of
Andy if he would like a job working with the race team. ‘It turns my creations cost more than a million dollars. That was a lot of
out he was more than the foreman I thought he was. He was the money in those days,’ Andy said.
production manager and he had some influence,’ Andy says. ‘I
‘One of the most famous I rebuilt from scratch was a Bugatti Type
told him I was interested in engineering and race cars.’
40 racing car which should have won the first Australian Grand
Andy was offered a role as a trainee trade-qualified engineer Prix back in 1928, but didn’t because of a fuel issue. It took 6,000
working with the race team. hours to build and I started with very little but a pile of original
drawings. It had been left to rot for about 60 years and what the
The job included an active involvement in what was then one of
rodents didn’t eat, the rust did.’
the most successful racing teams in Australian motorsport. He
was now only 16 years old.
That started in 1977 and Andy worked on the motorsport program
until 1984.
He recalls his great mentors. ‘I was taught by men whose
philsophy was – bite off more than you can chew and chew like
hell.
‘It was about this point that I realised my career had taken shape.
This is where it all really started,’ Andy recalls.
He was then invited to be a trainer, training apprentices and
dealership mechanics from time to time, and that experience
whetted his appetite for education. But his taste for his own
business was when he started Andy Goodall Racing in 1979.
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The economic downturn of the late 1980s put a stop to that type Institute of Motorsport a special place in automotive education
of work, so Andy became a manager with the RACV in road after only a few years.
service, as part of the team with the responsibility of training and
The completion and retention rate at his college is one of the
technical support for the club’s 230 patrolmen.
highest of any school in Australia. Students complete many
This lasted about eight years, and Andy reverted to his first love, qualifications in a year, and while it’s not a large number
building racing cars. compared with most of the big colleges, his institute does not lose
any along the way.
‘Back then, I designed and manufactured the whole car. I built
everything from open-wheelers to prototype sports cars and The institute covers the entire automotive curriculum, but is best
touring cars and several that were built for Asian and European known for its motorsport and automotive technology qualifications.
championships. These are cars that needed multi-million dollar
‘The students design and build all of our racing cars, and they
budgets to keep on the track.’
have just completed a huge project to turn a 25 year old truck
It’s now almost the turn of the century and Andy finds himself into a state-of-the-art motorsport transporter. Three racing cars
back with a vehicle manufacturer for another four years working in are currently in various stages of completion, two will be on the
the experimental department. Andy Goodall Racing was still alive track in Formula Vee events later this year, racing in both the New
and well. South Wales and Victorian state championships and the national
championship and title.
In 2005, Andy Goodall Training became a fully fledged education
consultancy. He worked with schools, was an education ‘Our education formula succeeds because, unlike other attempts
consultant and in a short time had established seven automotive to run a motorsport college, we have current resources and our
colleges. own racing team. Our students produce cars that actually race,
so we are able to offer the total experience of engineering, engine
Andy’s unique training style, a flexible blend of theory and
performance, building, racing and business management,’ Andy
practice, has earned Andy Goodall Training and the Australian
says.
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undercar.indd 1 20/02/2013 11:04:58 AM
Stalemate as
T
he saga of the world’s new They cite safety concerns resulting from
refrigerant for mobile air a possible leak, claiming that enough
German cars
conditioning systems has taken CO escaping into the passenger
2
a dramatic turn, although it won’t cabin could cause drowsiness among
come as a big surprise to many. occupants, increasing the risk of an
head for CO
accident.
All of the major German car makers
have now banded together to oppose 2 They also point to indirect carbon
the adoption of HFO-1234yf on safety emissions. Because more petrol or
grounds, flagging that they are now diesel fuel is needed to power a CO
2
determined to go straight to CO based a/c system it requires more
2
systems. They’ve told the European Union they need two years to energy to maintain sufficient internal pressure to keep carbon
design and change over to CO. It was common knowledge that dioxide contained and in a liquid state.
2
the German factories put a lot of money and effort into developing
At press time, there had been no official EU response to the
CO systems some years ago, but they abandoned this when
2 current situation, but back in November the Climate Action
news that a new refrigerant that met the emissions criteria and
Commission took a tough stance, insisting that all member states
would be a safe drop-in for R134a was announced. Another factor
comply with their refrigerant directive immediately.
was that the new alternative did not require a comprehensive and
costly redesign of air conditioning systems. Commissioner Connie Hedegaard was reported as saying that
car makers had had enough time to get their act together on the
But in their new act of defiance of the EU directive that all vehicles
directive.
must stop using R134a from this year, they now have the support
of the German environmental authority UBA, which has made an The EU passed its directive governing the phase-out of the
application to the EU to grant an extension to 2015. automotive air conditioning refrigerant R134a in 2006. The phase-
out began this year.
The EU, until now, has stood firm and threatened the car makers,
particularly Daimler, with heavy fines if they did not comply. A Driving the death of R134a was its known potential to warm the
previous application to delay the directive had failed. Whether climate 1,400 times more than normal carbon dioxide.
the EU position will weaken now under the combined onslaught
The world’s car makers agreed to adopt HFO-1234yf which was
from all German car makers as well as the German environmental
jointly developed and produced by Honeywell and DuPont.
authority remains to be seen.
Earlier this month, BMW joined Daimler and Volkswagen’s
Daimler originally challenged the safety of HFO-1234yf with tests
Audi and resigned from an industry research group looking into
of its own which, the car maker said, proved beyond doubt that in
the safety of HFO-1234yf, due to concerns over the scientific
a real-life crash scenario, the refrigerant would ignite and release
thoroughness of the investigation.
toxic hydrogen fluoride gas. Daimler has been joined now by
BMW, Volkswagen, Audi and Mercedes Benz brands in the move Daimler said its own tests not only proved the company’s fears
towards CO systems. were justified, but that they may have underestimated the risks.
2
The UBA, in its pitch to the EU for an extension of time, claimed If Daimler stands firm and refuses to use the new refrigerant
that a switch to CO would reduce the global warming potential it risks losing its ability to sell the cars in the EU, including the
2
by 75 per cent over HFO-1234yf, and that this alone would Mercedes A-Class.
justify allowing a longer transition time for those car makers that Volkswagen patriarch Ferdinand Piech told Auto Bild magazine
committed to the switch. in November that a CO based air conditioning system was the
2
Opponents of carbon dioxide as a refrigerant, however, argue it better solution since it is inherently non-flammable. He said VW
is not just the comprehensive and costly redesign of a/c systems would continue to use the existing R134a refrigerant until it can
that needs to be taken into account. make the technological jump on an industrial scale.
German car makers in Here is a list of the top ten countries Zooming in on Germany, the third
perspective and their production of vehicles for the highest car-producing country in the
top ten car makers in 2011 (per cent) world, here are the 2011 production
On a world scale, the German car figures for the companies that have
industry is a massive force. It is the China 24 defied the order to change over to
third largest car-producing country Japan 11.9 HFO-1234yf:
on earth, beaten only by China
Germany 9.7 Volkswagen, with 8,157,058 cars is
and Japan, and German company,
the second biggest car maker on the
Volkswagen, is the second biggest South Korea 7
planet (eclipsed by General Motors).
car maker. India 5
BMW, with 1.7 million cars produced in
In 2012, for the first time ever, the car USA 4.9
2011 was the world’s 13th biggest car
makers of the world produced more Brazil 4.2
maker while Daimler, with 1.5 million
than 60 million passenger cars.
France 3.2 was the 14th.
That’s 165,000 new cars off assembly Spain 3 (Source: International Organisation of
lines every day.
Russia 2.9 Motor Vehicle Manufacturers)
Australia was 29th on the list
with 0.3 per cent
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