1961 Dutch Grand Prix

 1961 Dutch Grand Prix

Racing data
2nd of 8 races in the 1961 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	X Grote Prijs van Nederland
Date:	May 22, 1961
Place:	Zandvoort , the Netherlands
Course:	Circuit Park Zandvoort
Length:	314.475 km in 75 laps of 4.193 km
Weather:	dry, sunny
Spectator:	~ 80,000
Pole position
Driver:	Phil Hill	Ferrari
Time:	1: 35.7 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jim Clark (Round 7)	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 35.5 min
Podium
First:	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari
Second:	Phil Hill	Ferrari
Third:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax

The 1961 Dutch Grand Prix took place on May 22, 1961 at Circuit Park Zandvoort near Zandvoort and was the second race of the 1961 World Cup .

Reports

background

While Scuderia Ferrari kept their driver pairing compared to the previous race, Lotus Innes Ireland was replaced by Trevor Taylor . This driver change was necessary because Ireland had been injured at the Monaco Grand Prix just a week earlier. For Taylor it was the only 1961 Grand Prix that he drove for Lotus. In the 1962 automobile world championship he was then a regular driver for this team, Ireland returned to Lotus in the next race of the season. Once again, Lotus used two different cars, Taylor drove the old Lotus 18 , team-mate Jim Clark the new Lotus 21 . Porsche used two Porsche 787s for Jo Bonnier and Dan Gurney . This was the last season the car was out of the season, and from the next race onwards, the Porsche 718 was used by all drivers .

Again various teams took part in the race with private cars. The Ecurie Maarsbergen had two Porsche 718 for Carel Godin de Beaufort and Hans Herrmann reported. For de Beaufort it was the first race of the season, Herrmann drove for this team for the only time in his career. As in the previous race, Stirling Moss was registered for the Rob Walker Racing Team with both a Lotus 18 and a Cooper T53 . He used the lotus for training and racing. John Surtees continued to drive for the Yeoman Credit Racing Team using a Cooper T53. Camoradi International drove for the first time with two cars, a Cooper T53 for Masten Gregory and a Lotus 18 for Ian Burgess . For Burgess this was the first race for the team and in a Lotus. In the drivers 'championship, Moss was ahead of the two Ferrari drivers, Richie Ginther and Phil Hill , and in the constructors' championship, Lotus was in first place, three points ahead of Ferrari. With Jack Brabham , Moss and Bonnier, three former winners were registered for the Grand Prix. Cooper and BRM had previously each won once, Ferrari twice.

training

The training was dominated by Ferrari, who secured the first three starting positions on the grid. Phil Hill and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips drove the same time, Phil Hill was awarded the pole position . This was Phil Hill's first pole position of the season and the start of a series of first places on the grid that lasted until the 1961 German Grand Prix . Ginther finished third in practice and was two tenths of a second slower than his teammates. Moss finished fourth on the grid ahead of Graham Hill on BRM. The gaps between the drivers and teams in midfield were small, followed by two other designers, Gurney on Porsche and Brabham on Cooper. Tony Brooks on BRM qualified eighth ahead of Surtees and Clark. The other placements were Bonnier, Herrmann, McLaren, Taylor and Beaufort. Burgess and Gregory did not drive any time in practice and then did not take part in the race.

run

Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands in 1961 - first victory for a German driver

Graf Berghe von Trips won the starting duel ahead of Graham Hill and Phil Hill. He finished the first lap in first place and thus became the first German driver to lead a race in the automobile world championship. On the first lap of the race, Graham Hill fell behind Phil Hill and Clark, who quickly improved by several positions. In the following laps of the race, Clark attacked Phil Hill, who was second, and overtook him several times. Phil Hill countered each time and kept second place. Behind them Graham Hill, Moss and Ginther dueled for fourth place, Ginther stayed in front of his two opponents for most of the time.

The race was mainly characterized by the high reliability of the cars. For the first time in the history of the automobile world championship, all vehicles that had started crossed the finish line. In addition, not a single pit stop was necessary. All drivers drove through the race without stopping in the pit lane. This situation occurred for several decades no longer, only at the Italian Grand Prix in 2005 again achieved all started car the goal.

The 1961 Dutch Grand Prix also demonstrated the superiority of the Ferrari 156. Graf Berghe von Trips led every lap of the race, his team-mate Phil Hill prevailed against Clark and two Ferrari drivers took the first two places. For Graf Berghe von Trips it was the first victory of his career and therefore the first for a German driver. For Ferrari began a winning streak of four races in a row, which lasted until the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1961 . There was a gap of less than a second between Graf Berghe von Trips and Phil Hill, and the duel between the two drivers also became the battle for the drivers' world championship in 1961. Clark finished third, 13 seconds behind, while Moss finished fourth after Ginther made a driving mistake on the last lap of the race and Moss overtook him. Brabham finished sixth, Surtees narrowly missed the points. With Graham Hill and Brooks, BRM finished eighth and ninth, followed by the two Porsche works drivers. Clark drove the fastest lap of the race, the first of his career.

After the Grand Prix, both Moss and Graf Berghe von Trips led the drivers' standings with 12 points each. Count Berghe von Trips became the first German to lead the drivers' standings, something that a German driver, Michael Schumacher , did not succeed again until the 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix . Phil Hill stayed in third place in the drivers' championship ahead of Ginther and Clark. In the constructors' championship, Ferrari took the lead from Lotus. Porsche and Cooper were tied in third place.

Graf Berghe von Trips won the first of two races with the Dutch Grand Prix, another Grand Prix victory followed later in the season. Due to his fatal accident at the Italian Grand Prix in 1961, it was his only victory at this Grand Prix. Ferrari only won a Dutch Grand Prix again 10 years later.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	01	Phil Hill	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6	D.
	02	Richie Ginther
	03	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
Owen Racing Organization	04th	Graham Hill	BRM P48 / 57	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
	05	Tony Brooks
Porsche System Engineering	06th	Jo Bonnier	Porsche 787	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
	07th	Dan Gurney
Ecurie Maarsbergen	08th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
	09	Hans Herrmann
Cooper Car Company	10	Jack Brabham	Cooper T55	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
	11	Bruce McLaren
Yeoman Credit Racing Team	12	John Surtees	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Rob Walker Racing Team	14th	Stirling Moss	Lotus 18	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Rob Walker Racing Team			Cooper T53
Team Lotus	15th	Jim Clark	Lotus 21	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
	16	Trevor Taylor	Lotus 18
Camoradi International	17th	Masts Gregory	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
	18th	Ian Burgess	Lotus 18

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Phil Hill	Ferrari	1: 35.7	157.73 km / h	01
02	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	1: 35.7	157.73 km / h	02
03	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	1: 35.9	157.40 km / h	03
04th	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax	1: 36.2	156.91 km / h	04th
05	Graham Hill	BRM-Climax	1: 36.3	156.75 km / h	05
06th	Dan Gurney	Porsche	1: 36.4	156.59 km / h	06th
07th	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.6	156.26 km / h	07th
08th	Tony Brooks	BRM-Climax	1: 36.8	155.94 km / h	08th
09	John Surtees	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.8	155.94 km / h	09
10	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 36.9	155.78 km / h	10
11	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	1: 37.1	155.46 km / h	11
12	Hans Herrmann	Porsche	1: 38.0	154.03 km / h	12
13	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 38.2	153.71 km / h	13
14th	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	1: 39.5	151.71 km / h	14th
15th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	1: 39.8	151.25 km / h	15th
16	Ian Burgess	Lotus Climax	no time		16
17th	Masts Gregory	Cooper-Climax	no time		17th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips	Ferrari	75		2: 01: 52.1	02	1: 36.0
02	Phil Hill	Ferrari	75		+ 0.9	01	1: 36.0
03	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	75		+ 13.1	10	1: 35.5
04th	Stirling Moss	Lotus Climax	75		+ 22.2	04th	1: 35.8
05	Richie Ginther	Ferrari	75		+ 22.3	03	1: 36.0
06th	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	75		+1: 20.1	07th	1: 37.2
07th	John Surtees	Cooper-Climax	75		+1: 26.7	09	1: 36.0
08th	Graham Hill	BRM-Climax	75		+1: 39.8	05	1: 36.2
09	Tony Brooks	BRM-Climax	74		+ 1 lap	08th	1: 37.0
10	Dan Gurney	Porsche	74		+ 1 lap	06th	1: 38.0
11	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	73		+ 2 rounds	11	1: 37.8
12	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	73		+ 2 rounds	13	1: 37.0
13	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	73		+ 2 rounds	14th	1: 37.0
14th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	72		+ 3 rounds	15th	1: 40.4
15th	Hans Herrmann	Porsche	72		+ 3 rounds	12	1: 40.3
-	Ian Burgess	Lotus Climax	00		DNS			Reserve driver
-	Masts Gregory	Cooper-Climax	00		DNS			Reserve driver

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Only the five best results from eight races counted. In the constructors' championship, the first six of the race got 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 points, only the points of the best placed driver on a team counted.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Stirling Moss Lotus Climax 12 02  Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips Ferrari 12 03  Phil Hill Ferrari 10 04th  Richie Ginther Ferrari 8th 05  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 4th 06th  Dan Gurney Porsche 2 07th  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 1 08th  Jack Brabham Cooper-Climax 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Ferrari 14th 02  lotus 12 03  Porsche 2 04th  cooper 2

Web links

• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Dutch GP, 1961 at grandprix.com
• Von Trips takes maiden win as Ferrari dominate at espnf1.com