The sixth Silver City Trophy was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 3 June 1961 at Brands Hatch Circuit. The race was run over 76 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver Stirling Moss in a Lotus 18/21.
The race was overshadowed by a fatal accident during qualifying when Shane Summers crashed his Cooper T53 into the concrete entrance to the paddock road tunnel.
Results Pos Driver Entrant Constructor Time/Retired Grid 1 Stirling Moss UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax 2.11:40.6 1 2 Jim Clark Team Lotus Lotus-Climax + 10.0 s 3 3 Tony Brooks Owen Racing Organisation BRM-Climax + 1:27.8 s 5 4 Roy Salvadori Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper-Climax 75 laps 6 5 Dan Gurney Louise Bryden-Brown Lotus-Climax 74 laps 12 6 Tony Marsh Tony Marsh Lotus-Climax 71 laps 13 7 Tim Parnell Tim Parnell Lotus-Climax 71 laps 19 8 Henry Taylor UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax 69 laps 10 9 Trevor Taylor Team Lotus Lotus-Climax 69 laps 11 10 Giuseppe Maugeri Giuseppe Maugeri Cooper-Climax 60 laps 22 11 Jo Bonnier UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax 57 laps 15 12 John Campbell-Jones John Campbell-Jones Cooper-Climax 57 laps 23 13 Graham Hill Owen Racing Organisation BRM-Climax 48 laps 4 Ret Graham Eden Graham Eden Cooper-Climax Engine 17 Ret John Surtees Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper-Climax Accident damage 2 Ret Keith Greene Gilby Engineering Gilby-Climax Engine 24 Ret Bruce McLaren Cooper Car Company Cooper-Climax Accident 7 Ret Jack Brabham Cooper Car Company Cooper-Climax Cam follower 8 Ret Jackie Lewis H & L Motors Cooper-Climax Ignition 9 Ret Alan Trow Alan Trow (Motor Cycles) Cooper-Climax Engine 18 Ret Michael May Scuderia Colonia Lotus-Climax Overheating 14 Ret Brian Naylor JBW Car Co JBW-Maserati Overheating 20 Ret Wolfgang Seidel Scuderia Colonia Lotus-Climax Gearbox 16 Ret Bernard Collomb Bernard Collomb Cooper-Climax Fuel feed 21 DNS Shane Summers Terry Bartram Cooper-Climax Fatal accident in practice - WD Cliff Allison UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax Moss drove car - WD Bruce Halford Jim Diggory Lotus-Climax Car not ready -
Stirling Moss was entered by the Rob Walker Racing Team to drive a Cooper-Climax but he did not race this car.
References "The Grand Prix Who's Who", Steve Small, 1995. "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974.