1961 Silver City Trophy
# 1961 Silver City Trophy

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.
