1961 FORMULA ONE SEASON

The '1961 Formula One season' was the 12th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on May 14, 1961, and ended on October 8 after eight races.

Contents

Season summary

Season review

1961 Constructors Championship final standings

1961 Drivers Championship final standings

Notes

Season summary

The first year of the 1.5 litre formula was dominated by a well-prepared Ferrari team. Only Stirling Moss, in an outdated Lotus, was able to beat the Ferraris on two tracks where his skills offset the Ferrari power advantage. The contest for the championship between Ferrari's leading drivers, Phil Hill and Wolfgang von Trips, ended in tragedy when von Trips collided with Jim Clark at Monza, killing the Ferrari driver and 14 spectators. Giancarlo Baghetti won his only grand prix, on his championship debut. With the change of formula and the introduction of the United States Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 was dropped from the championship.
The number of points awarded to a race winner was increased to nine.

Season review

Rnd	Race	Date	Location	Winning driver	Constructor	Report
1	Monaco Grand Prix	May 14	Monaco	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax	Report
2	Dutch Grand Prix	May 22	Zandvoort	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	Report
3	Belgian Grand Prix	June 18	Spa-Francorchamps	Phil Hill	Ferrari	Report
4	French Grand Prix	July 2	Reims	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	Report
5	British Grand Prix	July 15	Aintree	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	Report
6	German Grand Prix	August 6	Nürburgring	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax	Report
7	Italian Grand Prix	September 10	Monza	Phil Hill	Ferrari	Report
8	United States Grand Prix	October 8	Watkins Glen	Innes Ireland	Lotus-Climax	Report

1961 Constructors Championship final standings

Pos	Constructor	Points[1]
1	Ferrari	40 (52)
2	Lotus-Climax	32
3	Porsche	22 (23)
4	Cooper-Climax	14 (18)
5	BRM-Climax	7
6	Ferguson-Climax	0
7	Lotus-Maserati	0
8	Emeryson-Maserati	0
9	De Tomaso-Osca	0
10	De Tomaso-Alfa Romeo	0
11	Cooper-Maserati	0
12	Gilby-Climax	0
13	JBW-Climax	0

1961 Drivers Championship final standings

Pos	Driver	Country	Points	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1	Phil Hill	USA	34 (38)	2	6	5
2	Wolfgang von Trips	Germany	33	2	4	1
3	Dan Gurney	USA	21		3
4	Stirling Moss	Britain	21	2	2	1
5	Richie Ginther	USA	16		3
6	Innes Ireland	Britain	12	1	1
7	Jim Clark	Britain	11		2
8	Bruce McLaren	New Zealand	11		1
9	Giancarlo Baghetti	Italy	9	1	1
10	Tony Brooks	Britain	6		1
11	Jack Brabham	Australia	4			1
12	John Surtees	Britain	4
13	Jo Bonnier	Sweden	3
14	Olivier Gendebien	Belgium	3
15	Jackie Lewis	Britain	3
16	Graham Hill	Britain	3
17	Roy Salvadori	Britain	2
18	Peter Ryan	Canada
19	Ricardo Rodríguez	Mexico
20	Renato Pirocchi	Italy
21	Roberto Bussinello	Italy
22	Roberto Lippi	Italy
23	Roger Penske	USA
24	Tim Parnell	Britain
25	Tony Marsh	Britain
26	Trevor Taylor	Britain
27	Walt Hansgen	USA
28	Willy Mairesse	Belgium
29	Wolfgang Seidel	Germany
30	Masten Gregory	USA
31	Tony Maggs	South Africa
32	Brian Naylor	Britain
33	Nino Vaccarella	Italy
34	Michael May	Switzerland
35	Bernard Collomb	France
36	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Netherlands
37	Cliff Allison	Britain
38	Gaetano Starrabba	Italy
39	Gerry Ashmore	Britain
40	Giorgio Scarlatti	Italy
41	Hans Herrmann	Germany
42	Lorenzo Bandini	Italy
43	Andre Pilette	Belgium
44	Hap Sharp	USA
45	Maurice Trintignant	France
46	Lloyd Ruby	USA
47	Keith Greene	Britain
48	Jim Hall	USA
49	Jack Fairman	Britain
50	Ian Burgess	Britain
51	Henry Taylor	USA
52	Lucien Bianchi	Belgium

Notes

1. Only the best 5 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.