KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE SINCE 1999
Brausch Niemann
7/1/1939
14157
Brausch achieved amazing feats in a wide-wheeled Lotus Seven seemingly held together with lashings of masking tape, and known as either the 'coffin on cotton reels' or 'masked marvel', often putting to shame far more potent machinery in national racing in the early sixties. This led to his chance to race a FJ Lotus 22, in which he took numerous top-six places between 1963 and 1965. After driving Lotus 23 and 30 sports cars, then a Lotus Ford Cortina, Niemann turned to racing enduro motor cycles, winning the South African championship in 1979.
-
-
Jean Lucienbonnet 1923 - 1962 -
Mike Wilds 1946 -
Massimo Sigala 1951 -
Massimo 'Miki' Biasion 1958 -
Ianina Zanazzi 1982
-
Tony Maggs 1937 - 2009
Tony drove for the Cooper Formula 1 team in 1962 and 1963, finishing second in the French Grand Prix both years. He drove for the Centro-Sud BRM team in 1964 and drove a Parnell team Lotus-BRM in the 1965 South African Grand Prix. Later that year he had an accident at Pietermaritzburg which resulted in the death of a child. Distraught, Maggs retired immediately. -
Neville Lederle 1938
Regarded as one of his country's outstanding prospects, Lederle made an immediate impression on South African racing with his Lotus 18 late in 1961. This promise was confirmed the following year, when he finished sixth in the South African GP to score a point in his only Grand Prix start. -
Paddy Driver 1934
Paddy Driver is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and a racing driver from South Africa. -
Dave Clapham 1931 - 2005
Clapham raced saloon cars and single-seaters from 1956 to 1975 and pioneering numerous different forms of motor sport in South Africa throughout his life. -
Dave Charlton 1936
Dave Charlton succeeded John Love as the man to beat in South African during the early 1970s and went on to win a number of South African Championships.