1961 Silver City Trophy

1961 Silver City Trophy
Non-championship race in the 1961 Formula One season
Race details
Date	3 June 1961
Official name	Silver City Trophy
Location	Brands Hatch
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.265 km (2.65 miles)
Distance	76 laps, 311.345 km (201.4 miles)
Pole position
Driver	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax
Time	1:42.8
Fastest lap
Driver	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax
Time	1:42.0
Podium
First	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax
Second	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
Third	Tony Brooks	BRM-Climax

The sixth Silver City Trophy was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 3 June 1961 at Brands Hatch Circuit. The race was run over 76 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver Stirling Moss in a Lotus 18/21.

The race was overshadowed by a fatal accident during qualifying when Shane Summers crashed his Cooper T53 into the concrete entrance to the paddock road tunnel.

Results

Pos	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Stirling Moss	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	2.11:40.6	1
2	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	+ 10.0 s	3
3	Tony Brooks	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM-Climax	+ 1:27.8 s	5
4	Roy Salvadori	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper-Climax	75 laps	6
5	Dan Gurney	Louise Bryden-Brown	Lotus-Climax	74 laps	12
6	Tony Marsh	Tony Marsh	Lotus-Climax	71 laps	13
7	Tim Parnell	Tim Parnell	Lotus-Climax	71 laps	19
8	Henry Taylor	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	69 laps	10
9	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	69 laps	11
10	Giuseppe Maugeri	Giuseppe Maugeri	Cooper-Climax	60 laps	22
11	Jo Bonnier	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	57 laps	15
12	John Campbell-Jones	John Campbell-Jones	Cooper-Climax	57 laps	23
13	Graham Hill	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM-Climax	48 laps	4
Ret	Graham Eden	Graham Eden	Cooper-Climax	Engine	17
Ret	John Surtees	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper-Climax	Accident damage	2
Ret	Keith Greene	Gilby Engineering	Gilby-Climax	Engine	24
Ret	Bruce McLaren	Cooper Car Company	Cooper-Climax	Accident	7
Ret	Jack Brabham	Cooper Car Company	Cooper-Climax	Cam follower	8
Ret	Jackie Lewis	H & L Motors	Cooper-Climax	Ignition	9
Ret	Alan Trow	Alan Trow (Motor Cycles)	Cooper-Climax	Engine	18
Ret	Michael May	Scuderia Colonia	Lotus-Climax	Overheating	14
Ret	Brian Naylor	JBW Car Co	JBW-Maserati	Overheating	20
Ret	Wolfgang Seidel	Scuderia Colonia	Lotus-Climax	Gearbox	16
Ret	Bernard Collomb	Bernard Collomb	Cooper-Climax	Fuel feed	21
DNS	Shane Summers	Terry Bartram	Cooper-Climax	Fatal accident in practice	-
WD	Cliff Allison	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	Moss drove car	-
WD	Bruce Halford	Jim Diggory	Lotus-Climax	Car not ready	-

• Stirling Moss was entered by the Rob Walker Racing Team to drive a Cooper-Climax but he did not race this car.

References

• "The Grand Prix Who's Who", Steve Small, 1995.
• "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974.