Brausch Niemann

Ambraüsus " Brausch " Niemann ( born January 7, 1939 in Durban ) is a former South African racing driver.

Brausch Niemann played his first race on a Lotus Seven in his native South Africa. Until the mid- 1960s, the little Lotus remained his most important sports car. In 1963, he drove his only Formula 1 Grand Prix. At the Grand Prix of South Africa, he went with a Lotus 22 at the start, with which he drove to 1965 race. At the Grand Prix he could not place itself.

After a few years in touring car racing, where a Ford Cortina Lotus was his emergency vehicle, he rose early 1970s to on motorcycles and in 1979, South African motocross champion.

Literature and sources

• Rainer W. Schlegelmilch: Portraits of the 60's. Könemann, 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902-00746-8

• Formula 1 racing driver (South Africa)
• Born in 1939
• Man
• South Africans