1961 Silver City Trophy

NC UK Silver City Trophy Silver City Trophy Brands Hatch File:Brands Hatch 1960-1975.svg 3 June 1961 Permanent racing facility 2.65 4.265 76 201.4 311.345 Stirling Moss UK Lotus-Climax 1:42.8 Stirling Moss Lotus-Climax 1:42.0 UK Stirling Moss UK Lotus-Climax Jim Clark UK Lotus-Climax Tony Brooks UK 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 UK Stirling Moss UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax 2.11:40.6 1 2 UK Jim Clark Team Lotus Lotus-Climax + 10.0 s 3 3 UK Tony Brooks Owen Racing Organisation BRM-Climax + 1:27.8 s 5 4 UK Roy Salvadori Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper-Climax 75 laps 6 5 USA Dan Gurney Louise Bryden-Brown Lotus-Climax 74 laps 12 6 UK Tony Marsh Tony Marsh Lotus-Climax 71 laps 13 7 UK Tim Parnell Tim Parnell Lotus-Climax 71 laps 19 8 UK Henry Taylor UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax 69 laps 10 9 UK Trevor Taylor Team Lotus Lotus-Climax 69 laps 11 10 Italy Giuseppe Maugeri Giuseppe Maugeri Cooper-Climax 60 laps 22 11 Sweden Jo Bonnier UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax 57 laps 15 12 UK John Campbell-Jones John Campbell-Jones Cooper-Climax 57 laps 23 13 UK Graham Hill Owen Racing Organisation BRM-Climax 48 laps 4 Ret UK Graham Eden Graham Eden Cooper-Climax Engine 17 Ret UK John Surtees Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper-Climax Accident damage 2 Ret UK Keith Greene Gilby Engineering Gilby-Climax Engine 24 Ret New Zealand Bruce McLaren Cooper Car Company Cooper-Climax Accident 7 Ret Australia Jack Brabham Cooper Car Company Cooper-Climax Cam follower 8 Ret UK Jackie Lewis H & L Motors Cooper-Climax Ignition 9 Ret UK Alan Trow Alan Trow (Motor Cycles) Cooper-Climax Engine 18 Ret Switzerland Michael May Scuderia Colonia Lotus-Climax Overheating 14 Ret UK Brian Naylor JBW Car Co JBW-Maserati Overheating 20 Ret Germany Wolfgang Seidel Scuderia Colonia Lotus-Climax Gearbox 16 Ret France Bernard Collomb Bernard Collomb Cooper-Climax Fuel feed 21 DNS UK Shane Summers Terry Bartram Cooper-Climax Fatal accident in practice - WD UK Cliff Allison UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax Moss drove car - WD UK 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. Silver City Trophy 1961 1961 London Trophy 1961 British Empire Trophy 1960 Silver City Trophy — Category:Silver City Trophy Silver City Trophy Silver City Trophy