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
Location	Brands Hatch
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	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 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	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	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 (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.