1961 Silver City Trophy
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
Results
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.