1961 season

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Drivers

Pos	Driver	Team(s)	Wins	Pts
1	Phil Hill	Ferrari	2	34
2	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	2	33
3	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax→Ferguson	2	21
4	Dan Gurney	Porsche	0	21
5	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	0	16
6	Innes Ireland	Lotus-Climax	1	12
7	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	0	11
8	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	0	11
9	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	1	9
10	Tony Brooks	BRM	0	6
11	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	0	4
12	John Surtees	Cooper-Climax	0	4
13	Jackie Lewis	Cooper-Climax	0	3
14	Olivier Gendebien	Ferrari→Emeryson→Lotus-Climax	0	3
15	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	0	3
16	Graham Hill	BRM	0	3
17	Roy Salvadori	Cooper-Climax	0	2
–	Maurice Trintignant	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
–	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	0	0
–	Lorenzo Bandini	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
–	Cliff Allison	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Roger Penske	Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Hans Herrmann	Porsche	0	0
–	Peter Ryan	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Masten Gregory	Cooper-Climax→Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Henry Taylor	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Tim Parnell	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Hap Sharp	Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Tony Maggs	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Michael May	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Ian Burgess	Lotus-Climax→Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Renato Pirocchi	Cooper-Climax→Cooper-Maserati	0	0
–	Trevor Taylor	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Tony Marsh	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Keith Greene	Gilby	0	0
–	Gerry Ashmore	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Wolfgang Seidel	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Jim Hall	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Lloyd Ruby	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Gaetano Starrabba	Lotus-Maserati	0	0
–	Willy Mairesse	Lotus-Climax→Ferrari	0	0
–	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	0	0
–	Walt Hansgen	Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Lucien Bianchi	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Bernard Collomb	Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Jack Fairman	Ferguson→Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Nino Vaccarella	De Tomaso-Alfa Romeo	0	0
–	Ken Miles	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Giorgio Scarlatti	De Tomaso-Osca	0	0
–	Brian Naylor	JBW	0	0
–	Edgar Barth	Porsche	0	0
–	Juan Manuel Bordeu	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Roberto Bussinello	De Tomaso-Alfa Romeo	0	0
–	Massimo Natili	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
–	Peter Monteverdi	MBM	0	0
–	Roberto Lippi	De Tomaso-Osca	0	0
–	Geoff Duke	Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	John Campbell-Jones	Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Alfonso Thiele	Cooper-Climax	0	0
–	Ernesto Prinoth	Lotus-Climax	0	0
–	Menato Boffa	Cooper-Climax	0	0

Constructors

Pos	Team	Wins	Pts
1	Ferrari	5	45
2	Lotus-Climax	3	35
3	Porsche	0	22
4	Cooper-Climax	0	14
5	BRM	0	7
–	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
–	Gilby	0	0
–	Lotus-Maserati	0	0
–	Ferguson	0	0
–	De Tomaso-Alfa Romeo

Championship positions by round

Points progression

Points per round

Calendar

Rd	Grand Prix	Date	Pole	Winner	Team
1	Monaco Grand Prix	14 May 1961	Stirling Moss	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax
2	Dutch Grand Prix	22 May 1961	Phil Hill	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari
3	Belgian Grand Prix	18 Jun 1961	Phil Hill	Phil Hill	Ferrari
4	French Grand Prix	2 Jul 1961	Phil Hill	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari
5	British Grand Prix	15 Jul 1961	Phil Hill	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari
6	German Grand Prix	6 Aug 1961	Phil Hill	Stirling Moss	Lotus-Climax

Team line-ups

Driver changes this season: Ferrari, Lotus-Climax, Porsche, Cooper-Climax, Cooper-Maserati

Ferrari

Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pts
Ginther #36/2/6/18/5									16
Hill #38/1/4/16/2

Lotus-Climax

Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pts
Clark #28/15/34/8/18/14/36									11
Moss #20/14/26/28/7									21
Ireland #30/32/6/16/15/38									12
May #8/46/25/70 Left mid-season									0
Allison #32/16 Stand-in									0
Burgess #18/50/38/44 Left mid-season									0
Taylor #16 Stand-in									0
Seidel #48/46/52/26/56 Left mid-season									0
Taylor #16/30/20 Left mid-season									0
Bianchi #12/28/32 Stand-in									0
Marsh #42/48/37 Stand-in									0
Mairesse #10/48 Stand-in									0
Bordeu # Stand-in									0
Ashmore #40/27/18 Stand-in									0
Maggs #50/33 Stand-in									0
Parnell #38/16 Stand-in									0
Gregory #22/21 Joined mid-season									0
Prinoth #64 Stand-in									0
Gendebien #21 Joined mid-season									0
Hall #17 Joined mid-season									0
Miles #23 Joined mid-season									0
Ruby #26 Joined mid-season									0
Ryan #16 Joined mid-season									0

Cooper-Climax

Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pts
Brabham #24/10/28/2/12/1									4
McLaren #26/11/30/4/14/2/12									11
Surtees #22/12/24/40/34/18/42									4
Gregory #17/44/36/42/12 Left mid-season									0
Lewis #40/44/46/28/60 Left mid-season									3
Salvadori #42/36/19/40 Joined mid-season									2
Collomb #52/38 Stand-in									0
Burgess #30 Stand-in									0
Campbell-Jones #39 Stand-in									0
Duke #35 Stand-in									0
Pirocchi #34 Stand-in									0
Boffa #66 Stand-in									0
Fairman #30 Stand-in									0
Thiele #34 Stand-in									0
Hansgen #60 Joined mid-season									0
Penske #6 Joined mid-season									0
Sharp #3 Joined mid-season									0

Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pts
Bonnier #2/6/18/10/8/44/11									3
Gurney #4/7/20/12/10/9/46									21
Herrmann #6/9/14/11 Left mid-season									0
de Beaufort #8/22/14/56/31/74 Left mid-season									0
Barth #10/46 Stand-in									0

Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pts
Trintignant #42/26/32/20/48									0
Bandini #46/60/32/62 Joined mid-season									0
Natili #62/58 Stand-in									0
Pirocchi #58 Joined mid-season									0