Race · Round 5 of 8 · 15 July 1961

1961 British Grand Prix

Wolfgang von Trips won for Ferrari from 4th on the grid at Aintree. 13 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: AintreeLiverpool, United Kingdom
Winner: Wolfgang von TripsFerrari
Pole: Phil Hill
Fastest lap: Tony Brooks
Entries: 3017 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	156	4	75	Finished	9
2	Phil Hill	Ferrari	156	1	75	Finished	6
3	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	156	2	75	Finished	4
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	—	9	75	Finished	3
5	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	—	3	75	Finished	2
6	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	T53	13	75	Finished	1
7	Dan Gurney	Porsche	—	12	74	Finished	0
8	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	14	74	Finished	0
9	Tony Brooks	BRM	P48/57	6	73	Finished	0	fastest lap
10	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	7	72	Finished	0
11	Masten Gregory	Cooper	T53	16	71	Finished	0
12	Lorenzo Bandini	Cooper	—	21	71	Finished	0
13	Tony Maggs	Team Lotus	18	24	69	Finished	0
14	Ian Burgess	Team Lotus	18	25	69	Finished	0
15	Keith Greene	Gilby	61	23	69	Finished	0
16	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	718	18	69	Finished	0
17	Wolfgang Seidel	Team Lotus	18	22	58	Finished	0
DNF	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	8	62	Oil leak	0
DSQ	Jack Fairman	Ferguson	P99	20	56	Push start in pits	0
DNF	Lucien Bianchi	Team Lotus	—	30	45	Gearbox	0
DNF	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	—	5	44	Brakes	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	P48/57	11	43	Engine	0
DNF	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	156	19	27	Accident	0
DNF	Tony Marsh	Team Lotus	18	27	25	Ignition	0
DNF	John Surtees	Cooper	T53	10	23	Differential	0
DNF	Tim Parnell	Team Lotus	18	29	12	Clutch	0
DNF	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	T53	15	7	Handling	0
DNF	Gerry Ashmore	Team Lotus	18	26	7	Ignition	0
DNF	Henry Taylor	Team Lotus	—	17	5	Accident	0
DNF	Massimo Natili	Cooper	—	28	0	Gearbox	0

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

F1DB layout aintree-1 · 4.828 km · 8 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
Wolfgang von Trips	4	1	75
Phil Hill	1	2	75
Richie Ginther	2	3	75
Sir Jack Brabham	9	4	75
Jo Bonnier	3	5	75
Roy Salvadori	13	6	75
Dan Gurney	12	7	74
Bruce McLaren	14	8	74
Tony Brooks	6	9	73
Innes Ireland	7	10	72
Masten Gregory	16	11	71
Lorenzo Bandini	21	12	71
Tony Maggs	24	13	69
Ian Burgess	25	14	69
Keith Greene	23	15	69
Carel Godin de Beaufort	18	16	69
Wolfgang Seidel	22	17	58
Jim Clark	8	DNF	62
Jack Fairman	20	DSQ	56
Lucien Bianchi	30	DNF	45
Sir Stirling Moss	5	DNF	44
Graham Hill	11	DNF	43
Giancarlo Baghetti	19	DNF	27
Tony Marsh	27	DNF	25
John Surtees	10	DNF	23
Tim Parnell	29	DNF	12
Jackie Lewis	15	DNF	7
Gerry Ashmore	26	DNF	7
Henry Taylor	17	DNF	5
Massimo Natili	28	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Phil Hill	Ferrari	2	1:58.800	—	—
2	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	6	1:58.800	+0.000	+0.000
3	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	8	1:58.800	+0.000	+0.000
4	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	4	1:58.800	+0.000	+0.000
5	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	28	1:59.000	+0.200	+0.200
6	Tony Brooks	BRM	22	1:59.000	+0.200	+0.000
7	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	16	1:59.200	+0.400	+0.200
8	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	18	1:59.200	+0.400	+0.000
9	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	12	1:59.400	+0.600	+0.200
10	John Surtees	Cooper	34	1:59.600	+0.800	+0.200
11	Graham Hill	BRM	20	2:00.000	+1.200	+0.400
12	Dan Gurney	Porsche	10	2:00.200	+1.400	+0.200
13	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	36	2:00.800	+2.000	+0.600
14	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	14	2:01.000	+2.200	+0.200
15	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	46	2:01.000	+2.200	+0.000
16	Masten Gregory	Cooper	42	2:01.400	+2.600	+0.400
17	Henry Taylor	Team Lotus	30	2:01.800	+3.000	+0.400
18	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	56	2:02.000	+3.200	+0.200
19	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	58	2:02.000	+3.200	+0.000
20	Jack Fairman	Ferguson	26	2:03.400	+4.600	+1.400
21	Lorenzo Bandini	Cooper	60	2:03.600	+4.800	+0.200
22	Wolfgang Seidel	Team Lotus	52	2:04.200	+5.400	+0.600
23	Keith Greene	Gilby	54	2:06.000	+7.200	+1.800
24	Tony Maggs	Team Lotus	50	2:06.400	+7.600	+0.400
25	Ian Burgess	Team Lotus	44	2:06.600	+7.800	+0.200
26	Gerry Ashmore	Team Lotus	40	2:08.200	+9.400	+1.600
27	Tony Marsh	Team Lotus	48	2:09.600	+10.800	+1.400
28	Massimo Natili	Cooper	62	2:10.200	+11.400	+0.600
29	Tim Parnell	Team Lotus	38	2:16.800	+18.000	+6.600
30	Lucien Bianchi	Team Lotus	32	2:18.800	+20.000	+2.000

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: 5 of 1961
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 15 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.