1961 Formula One season

The **1961 Formula One** season saw Phil Hill crowned as champion.

## Season review

|Rnd|Race|Date|Location|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Monaco Grand Prix|May 14|Monaco|Stirling Moss|Lotus-Climax|Report||
|Dutch Grand Prix|May 22|Zandvoort|Wolfgang von Trips|Ferrari|Report||
|Belgian Grand Prix|June 18|Spa-Francorchamps|Phil Hill|Ferrari|Report||
|French Grand Prix|July 2|Reims|Giancarlo Baghetti|Ferrari|Report||
|British Grand Prix|July 15|Aintree|Wolfgang von Trips|Ferrari|Report||
|German Grand Prix|August 6|Nürburgring|Stirling Moss|Lotus-Climax|Report||
|Italian Grand Prix|September 10|Monza|Phil Hill|Ferrari|Report||
|United States Grand Prix|October 8|Watkins Glen|Innes Ireland|Lotus-Climax|Report||

## 1961 Drivers Championship final standings

|valign="middle"|Pos.|valign="middle"|Driver|MON|NED|BEL|FRA|GBR|GER|ITA|USA|valign="middle"|Pts.||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%"|||||||||||||||||||
|Phil Hill|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1||align="right"|**34 (38)**||
|Wolfgang von Trips|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**33**||
|Stirling Moss|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**21**|
|Dan Gurney|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|align="right"|**21**|
|Richie Ginther|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**16**||
|Innes Ireland|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|align="right"|**12**|||
|Jim Clark|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|align="right"|**11**|
|Bruce McLaren|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|align="right"|**11**|
|Giancarlo Baghetti||||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**9**||||||
|Tony Brooks|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|align="right"|**6**|
|Jack Brabham|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**4**|
|John Surtees|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**4**|
|Jackie Lewis|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||align="right"|**3**||||
|Olivier Gendebien|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|align="right"|**3**||||||
|Joakim Bonnier|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|align="right"|**3**|
|Graham Hill|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|align="right"|**3**|
|Roy Salvadori||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**2**||||
|Maurice Trintignant|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||align="right"|**0**||||
|Carel Godin de Beaufort||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||align="right"|**0**|||
|Lorenzo Bandini|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Cliff Allison|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8||||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Roger Penske||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Hans Herrmann|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Peter Ryan||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Masten Gregory|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||
|Henry Taylor|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Tim Parnell|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Hap Sharp||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Tony Maggs|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Michael May|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Ian Burgess|||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Renato Pirocchi|||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Trevor Taylor||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|||||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Tony Marsh|||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Keith Greene|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Gerry Ashmore|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Wolfgang Seidel|||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|17|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Bernard Collomb||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Lucien Bianchi|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Willy Mairesse|||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**||||||
|Jack Fairman|||||bgcolor="#000000" style="color: white"|DSQ||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Giorgio Scarlatti||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Massimo Natili|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Gaetano Starrabba|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Ricardo Rodríguez|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Nino Vaccarella|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Roberto Bussinello|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Brian Naylor|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Roberto Lippi|||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Jim Hall||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Lloyd Ruby||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Walt Hansgen||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Andre Pilette|||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||align="right"|**0**||||||||
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- Only the best 5 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.