Race · Round 3 of 8 ·

1961 Belgian Grand Prix

Phil Hill won for Ferrari from pole at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit
Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner
Phil HillFerrari
Fastest lap
Richie Ginther
Entries
2613 classified

Classification

Classification
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Phil HillFerrari156130Finished9
2Wolfgang von TripsFerrari156230Finished6
3Richie GintherFerrari156530Finished4fastest lap
4Olivier GendebienFerrari156330Finished3
5John SurteesCooperT53430Finished2
6Dan GurneyPorsche—1030Finished1
7Jo BonnierPorsche—930Finished0
8Sir Stirling MossTeam Lotus—830Finished0
9Jackie LewisCooperT531329Finished0
10Masten GregoryCooperT531229Finished0
11Carel Godin de BeaufortPorsche7181428Finished0
12Jim ClarkTeam Lotus—1824Finished0
13Tony BrooksBRMP48/57724Finished0
DNFGraham HillBRMP48/57624Ignition0
DNFMaurice TrintignantCooperT512023Gearbox0
DNFLorenzo BandiniCooper—1720Wheel bearing0
DNFSir Jack BrabhamCooper—1112Engine0
DNFLucien BianchiTeam Lotus18219Oil leak0
DNFInnes IrelandTeam Lotus—169Engine0
DNFBruce McLarenCooper—159Ignition0
DNFWilly MairesseTeam Lotus18197Ignition0
DNSTony MarshTeam Lotus18——Money dispute0
DNSWolfgang SeidelTeam Lotus18——Money dispute0
DNSIan BurgessTeam Lotus18——Money dispute0
DNSCliff AllisonTeam Lotus———Car damaged in practice0
DNSHenry TaylorTeam Lotus———Car damaged in practice0
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB layout spa-francorchamps-1 · 14.12 km · 21 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

051015202530Laps completedGridResult11Phil Hill22Wolfgang von Trips53Richie Ginther34Olivier Gendebien45John Surtees106Dan Gurney97Jo Bonnier88Sir Stirling Moss139Jackie Lewis1210Masten Gregory1411Carel Godin de Beaufort1812Jim Clark713Tony Brooks6DNFGraham Hill20DNFMaurice Trintignant17DNFLorenzo Bandini11DNFSir Jack Brabham21DNFLucien Bianchi16DNFInnes Ireland15DNFBruce McLaren19DNFWilly Mairesse

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
DriverGridResultLaps
Phil Hill1130
Wolfgang von Trips2230
Richie Ginther5330
Olivier Gendebien3430
John Surtees4530
Dan Gurney10630
Jo Bonnier9730
Sir Stirling Moss8830
Jackie Lewis13929
Masten Gregory121029
Carel Godin de Beaufort141128
Jim Clark181224
Tony Brooks71324
Graham Hill6DNF24
Maurice Trintignant20DNF23
Lorenzo Bandini17DNF20
Sir Jack Brabham11DNF12
Lucien Bianchi21DNF9
Innes Ireland16DNF9
Bruce McLaren15DNF9
Willy Mairesse19DNF7

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGapInterval
1Phil HillFerrari43:59.300——
2Wolfgang von TripsFerrari24:00.100+0.800+0.800
3Olivier GendebienFerrari84:03.000+3.700+2.900
4John SurteesCooper244:06.000+6.700+3.000
5Richie GintherFerrari64:06.100+6.800+0.100
6Graham HillBRM364:07.600+8.300+1.500
7Tony BrooksBRM384:07.900+8.600+0.300
8Sir Stirling MossTeam Lotus144:08.200+8.900+0.300
9Jo BonnierPorsche184:08.300+9.000+0.100
10Dan GurneyPorsche204:08.400+9.100+0.100
11Sir Jack BrabhamCooper284:08.600+9.300+0.200
12Masten GregoryCooper444:10.200+10.900+1.600
13Jackie LewisCooper404:11.100+11.800+0.900
14Carel Godin de BeaufortPorsche224:16.700+17.400+5.600
15Bruce McLarenCooper304:17.400+18.100+0.700
16Jim ClarkTeam Lotus344:17.700+18.400+0.300
17Lorenzo BandiniCooper464:19.000+19.700+1.300
18Innes IrelandTeam Lotus324:20.000+20.700+1.000
19Willy MairesseTeam Lotus104:20.600+21.300+0.600
20Maurice TrintignantCooper264:21.400+22.100+0.800
22Lucien BianchiTeam Lotus124:27.300+28.000+4.100
22Tony MarshTeam Lotus424:23.200+23.900+1.800
23Wolfgang SeidelTeam Lotus484:27.400+28.100+0.100
24Ian BurgessTeam Lotus504:34.600+35.300+7.200
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Ferrari 156 F1
Ferrari 156 F1
Ferrari Tipo 156 Sharknose (1961) Solitude Revival 2019 IMG 1632 · Alexander Migl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Cooper T53
Cooper T53
Cooper T53 Wheatcroft Straight · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
BRM P48
BRM P48
BRM P48 Mallory Park · TOM at Picassa . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cooper T51
Cooper T51
Cooper T51 Rob Walker Donington · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lotus 18
Lotus 18
Lotus 18 Stirling Moss Monaco 1961 · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round
3 of 1961
Grand Prix
Belgian Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
Original road circuit · 14.1 km · 19 turns
Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
Ferrari
Entrant
Ferrari
Confidence
reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.