Ambraüsus “Brausch” Niemann (born 7 January 1939 in Durban) is a former racing driver from South Africa.
He participated in 2 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix in 1963 and 1965, both in his home country, driving a privately entered Lotus. He managed to qualify for the first of these, finishing 14th and scoring no championship points.
After success in Formula Junior in the mid-1960s, Niemann switched to enduro motor cycle racing, winning the South African championship in 1979. Info from Wiki
Bio by Stephen Latham
Brausch Niemann was a regular in South Africa’s national scene during the early 1960s. He qualified for two F1 races at the end of 1962, the Rand and Natal Grands Prix.
He drove Ted Lanfear’s Formula Junior Lotus 22 in 1963 and they fitted a pushrod Ford engine for the end of season visit of the world championship stars. He qualified in a respectable eighth position for the Rand GP at Kyalami before retiring. His championship debut followed a fortnight later but he was in trouble from the second lap of the South African GP when delayed by a succession of mechanical woes.
A year later, he finished fifth in the Rand GP but failed to qualify for the South African GP (the first round of the 1965 World Championship). He drove in national sports cars and touring cars events before switching to two-wheels, winning the South African motorcycle endurance title in 1979.
He was a Kawasaki dealer in South Africa but later moved to Wales where he ran Gazelle Engineering, a manufacturing company specialising in motorcycle exhausts.
