Race · Round 4 of 8 · 2 July 1961

1961 French Grand Prix

Giancarlo Baghetti won for Ferrari from 12th on the grid at Reims-Gueux. 11 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Giancarlo Baghetti.

Circuit: Reims-GueuxGueux, France
Winner: Giancarlo BaghettiFerrari
Pole: Phil Hill
Fastest lap: Phil Hill
Entries: 2815 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	156	12	52	Finished	9
2	Dan Gurney	Porsche	—	9	52	Finished	6
3	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	5	52	Finished	4
4	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	10	52	Finished	3
5	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	8	52	Finished	2
6	Graham Hill	BRM	P48/57	6	52	Finished	1
7	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	—	13	52	Finished	0
8	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	T53	15	51	Finished	0
9	Phil Hill	Ferrari	156	1	50	Finished	0	fastest lap
10	Henry Taylor	Team Lotus	—	25	49	Finished	0
11	Michael May	Team Lotus	18	22	48	Finished	0
12	Masten Gregory	Cooper	T53	16	43	Finished	0
13	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	T51	23	42	Finished	0
14	Ian Burgess	Team Lotus	18	24	42	Finished	0
15	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	156	3	40	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	—	4	31	Brakes	0
DNF	Willy Mairesse	Team Lotus	—	20	27	Engine	0
DNF	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	718	17	23	Overheating	0
DNF	Lucien Bianchi	Team Lotus	—	19	21	Overheating	0
DNF	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	156	2	18	Engine	0
DNF	Giorgio Scarlatti	De Tomaso	F1/001	26	15	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	—	14	14	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Bernard Collomb	Cooper	T53	21	6	Engine	0
DNF	John Surtees	Cooper	T53	7	4	Accident	0
DNF	Tony Brooks	BRM	P48/57	11	4	Overheating	0
DNF	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	T53	18	4	Overheating	0
DNS	Wolfgang Seidel	Team Lotus	18	—	—	Practice only	0
DNS	Juan Manuel Bordeu	Team Lotus	—	—	—	Practice only	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout reims-2 · 8.302 km · 7 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

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
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Giancarlo Baghetti	12	1	52
Dan Gurney	9	2	52
Jim Clark	5	3	52
Innes Ireland	10	4	52
Bruce McLaren	8	5	52
Graham Hill	6	6	52
Jo Bonnier	13	7	52
Roy Salvadori	15	8	51
Phil Hill	1	9	50
Henry Taylor	25	10	49
Michael May	22	11	48
Masten Gregory	16	12	43
Maurice Trintignant	23	13	42
Ian Burgess	24	14	42
Richie Ginther	3	15	40
Sir Stirling Moss	4	DNF	31
Willy Mairesse	20	DNF	27
Carel Godin de Beaufort	17	DNF	23
Lucien Bianchi	19	DNF	21
Wolfgang von Trips	2	DNF	18
Giorgio Scarlatti	26	DNF	15
Sir Jack Brabham	14	DNF	14
Bernard Collomb	21	DNF	6
John Surtees	7	DNF	4
Tony Brooks	11	DNF	4
Jackie Lewis	18	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Phil Hill	Ferrari	16	2:24.900	—	—
2	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	20	2:26.400	+1.500	+1.500
3	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	18	2:26.800	+1.900	+0.400
4	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	26	2:27.600	+2.700	+0.800
5	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	8	2:29.000	+4.100	+1.400
6	Graham Hill	BRM	22	2:29.100	+4.200	+0.100
7	John Surtees	Cooper	40	2:29.100	+4.200	+0.000
8	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	4	2:29.400	+4.500	+0.300
9	Dan Gurney	Porsche	12	2:29.600	+4.700	+0.200
10	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	6	2:29.800	+4.900	+0.200
11	Tony Brooks	BRM	24	2:29.900	+5.000	+0.100
12	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	50	2:30.500	+5.600	+0.600
13	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	10	2:30.500	+5.600	+0.000
14	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	2	2:31.000	+6.100	+0.500
15	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	42	2:31.200	+6.300	+0.200
16	Masten Gregory	Cooper	36	2:31.300	+6.400	+0.100
17	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	14	2:31.800	+6.900	+0.500
18	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	44	2:32.000	+7.100	+0.200
19	Lucien Bianchi	Team Lotus	28	2:33.400	+8.500	+1.400
20	Willy Mairesse	Team Lotus	48	2:35.800	+10.900	+2.400
21	Bernard Collomb	Cooper	52	2:36.800	+11.900	+1.000
22	Michael May	Team Lotus	46	2:37.900	+13.000	+1.100
23	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	32	2:38.800	+13.900	+0.900
24	Ian Burgess	Team Lotus	38	2:39.700	+14.800	+0.900
25	Henry Taylor	Team Lotus	30	2:40.300	+15.400	+0.600
26	Giorgio Scarlatti	De Tomaso	34	2:47.100	+22.200	+6.800

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.

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: 4 of 1961
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Jul 1961
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.