1961 Silver City Trophy

  1961 Silver City Trophy
Race details
Non-Championship Race in the 1961 Formula One season
Date 3 June 1961
Official name II Silver City Trophy
Location Brands Hatch
Course Permanent racing facility
4.265 km (2.65 mi)
Distance 76 laps, 311.345 km (201.4 mi)
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 2nd 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 -

References

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