Race · Round 8 of 8 · 8 October 1961

1961 United States Grand Prix

Innes Ireland won for Team Lotus from 8th on the grid at Watkins Glen. It was the first championship race win for Innes Ireland.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Innes IrelandTeam Lotus
Pole: Sir Jack Brabham
Fastest lap: Sir Jack Brabham
Entries: 1912 classified

This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	8	100	Finished	9
2	Dan Gurney	Porsche	—	7	100	Finished	6
3	Tony Brooks	BRM	P48/57	6	100	Finished	4
4	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	4	100	Finished	3
5	Graham Hill	BRM	P48/57	2	99	Finished	2
6	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	—	10	98	Finished	1
7	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	5	96	Finished	0
8	Roger Penske	Cooper	T53	16	96	Finished	0
9	Peter Ryan	Team Lotus	18/21	13	96	Finished	0
10	Hap Sharp	Cooper	—	17	93	Finished	0
11	Olivier Gendebien shared	Team Lotus	—	15	92	Finished	0
11	Masten Gregory shared	Team Lotus	—	11	23	Gearbox	0
DNF	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	T53	12	96	Engine	0
DNF	Lloyd Ruby	Team Lotus	18	19	76	Magneto	0
DNF	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	18	18	76	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	—	3	58	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	—	1	57	Overheating	0	fastest lap
DNF	Walt Hansgen	Cooper	T53	14	14	Accident	0
DNF	John Surtees	Cooper	T53	9	0	Engine	0

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

F1DB layout watkins-glen-1 · 3.78 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. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Innes Ireland	8	1	100
Dan Gurney	7	2	100
Tony Brooks	6	3	100
Bruce McLaren	4	4	100
Graham Hill	2	5	99
Jo Bonnier	10	6	98
Jim Clark	5	7	96
Roger Penske	16	8	96
Peter Ryan	13	9	96
Hap Sharp	17	10	93
Olivier Gendebien shared	15	11	92
Masten Gregory shared	11	11	23
Roy Salvadori	12	DNF	96
Lloyd Ruby	19	DNF	76
Jim Hall	18	DNF	76
Sir Stirling Moss	3	DNF	58
Sir Jack Brabham	1	DNF	57
Walt Hansgen	14	DNF	14
John Surtees	9	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Cooper	1	1:17.000	—	—
2	Graham Hill	BRM	4	1:18.100	+1.100	+1.100
3	Sir Stirling Moss	Team Lotus	7	1:18.200	+1.200	+0.100
4	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	2	1:18.200	+1.200	+0.000
5	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	14	1:18.300	+1.300	+0.100
6	Tony Brooks	BRM	5	1:18.300	+1.300	+0.000
7	Dan Gurney	Porsche	12	1:18.600	+1.600	+0.300
8	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	15	1:18.800	+1.800	+0.200
9	John Surtees	Cooper	18	1:18.900	+1.900	+0.100
10	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	11	1:18.900	+1.900	+0.000
11	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	22	1:19.100	+2.100	+0.200
12	Roy Salvadori	Cooper	19	1:19.200	+2.200	+0.100
13	Peter Ryan	Team Lotus	16	1:20.000	+3.000	+0.800
14	Walt Hansgen	Cooper	60	1:20.400	+3.400	+0.400
15	Olivier Gendebien	Team Lotus	21	1:20.500	+3.500	+0.100
16	Roger Penske	Cooper	6	1:20.600	+3.600	+0.100
17	Hap Sharp	Cooper	3	1:21.000	+4.000	+0.400
18	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	17	1:21.800	+4.800	+0.800
19	Lloyd Ruby	Team Lotus	26	1:21.800	+4.800	+0.000

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 8 of 1961
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 8 Oct 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.