Race · Round 6 of 8 · 6 August 1961

1961 German Grand Prix

Sir Stirling Moss won for Team Lotus from 3rd on the grid at Nurburgring Nordschleife. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Nurburgring NordschleifeNurburg, Germany
Winner: Sir Stirling MossTeam Lotus
Pole: Phil Hill
Fastest lap: Phil Hill
Entries: 2716 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	—	3	15	Finished	9
2	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	156	5	15	Finished	6
3	Phil Hill	Ferrari	156	1	15	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	8	15	Finished	3
5	John Surtees	Cooper	T53	10	15	Finished	2
6	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	12	15	Finished	1
7	Dan Gurney	Porsche	—	7	15	Finished	0
8	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	156	14	15	Finished	0
9	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	T53	18	15	Finished	0
10	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	T53	15	15	Finished	0
11	Tony Maggs	Team Lotus	18	22	14	Finished	0
12	Ian Burgess	Cooper	T53	24	14	Finished	0
13	Hans Herrmann	Porsche	—	11	14	Finished	0
14	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	718	17	14	Finished	0
15	Tony Marsh	Team Lotus	18	20	13	Finished	0
16	Gerry Ashmore	Team Lotus	18	25	13	Finished	0
DNF	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	156	13	13	Accident	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	T51	21	12	Engine	0
NC	Bernard Collomb	Cooper	T53	26	11	NC	0
DNF	Lorenzo Bandini	Cooper	—	19	10	Engine	0
DNF	Tony Brooks	BRM	P48/57	9	6	Engine	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	—	4	5	Engine	0
DNF	Wolfgang Seidel	Team Lotus	18	23	3	Handling	0
DNF	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	16	1	Fire	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	P48/57	6	1	Accident	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	—	2	0	Accident	0
DNS	Michael May	Team Lotus	18	—	—	Accident in practice	0

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

F1DB layout nurburgring-1 · 22.81 km · 160 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
Sir Stirling Moss	3	1	15
Wolfgang von Trips	5	2	15
Phil Hill	1	3	15
Jim Clark	8	4	15
John Surtees	10	5	15
Bruce McLaren	12	6	15
Dan Gurney	7	7	15
Richie Ginther	14	8	15
Jackie Lewis	18	9	15
Roy Salvadori	15	10	15
Tony Maggs	22	11	14
Ian Burgess	24	12	14
Hans Herrmann	11	13	14
Carel Godin de Beaufort	17	14	14
Tony Marsh	20	15	13
Gerry Ashmore	25	16	13
Willy Mairesse	13	DNF	13
Maurice Trintignant	21	DNF	12
Bernard Collomb	26	NC	11
Lorenzo Bandini	19	DNF	10
Tony Brooks	9	DNF	6
Jo Bonnier	4	DNF	5
Wolfgang Seidel	23	DNF	3
Innes Ireland	16	DNF	1
Graham Hill	6	DNF	1
Sir Jack Brabham	2	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Phil Hill	Ferrari	4	8:55.200	—	—
2	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	1	9:01.400	+6.200	+6.200
3	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	7	9:01.700	+6.500	+0.300
4	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	8	9:04.800	+9.600	+3.100
5	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	3	9:05.500	+10.300	+0.700
6	Graham Hill	BRM	17	9:06.400	+11.200	+0.900
7	Dan Gurney	Porsche	9	9:06.600	+11.400	+0.200
8	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	14	9:08.100	+12.900	+1.500
9	Tony Brooks	BRM	16	9:09.300	+14.100	+1.200
10	John Surtees	Cooper	18	9:11.200	+16.000	+1.900
11	Hans Herrmann	Porsche	11	9:12.700	+17.500	+1.500
12	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	2	9:13.000	+17.800	+0.300
13	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	6	9:15.900	+20.700	+2.900
14	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	5	9:16.600	+21.400	+0.700
15	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	19	9:22.000	+26.800	+5.400
16	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	15	9:22.900	+27.700	+0.900
17	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	31	9:28.400	+33.200	+5.500
18	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	28	9:31.400	+36.200	+3.000
19	Lorenzo Bandini	Cooper	32	9:35.400	+40.200	+4.000
20	Tony Marsh	Team Lotus	37	9:37.700	+42.500	+2.300
21	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper	20	9:38.500	+43.300	+0.800
22	Tony Maggs	Team Lotus	33	9:45.500	+50.300	+7.000
23	Wolfgang Seidel	Team Lotus	26	9:59.900	+1:04.700	+14.400
24	Ian Burgess	Cooper	30	10:01.400	+1:06.200	+1.500
25	Gerry Ashmore	Team Lotus	27	10:06.000	+1:10.800	+4.600
26	Bernard Collomb	Cooper	38	10:23.000	+1:27.800	+17.000
27	Michael May	Team Lotus	25	10:37.500	+1:42.300	+14.500

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.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

At the 1961 German Grand Prix — MossLotusClimax19610806 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

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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: 6 of 1961
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 6 Aug 1961
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Climax
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.