1961

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Phil Hill	American	Ferrari	34	2
2	WTWolfgang von Trips	German	Ferrari	33	2
3	SMStirling Moss	British	Ferguson / Lotus-Climax	21	2
4	Dan Gurney	American	Porsche	21	0
5	Richie Ginther	American	Ferrari	16	0
6	Innes Ireland	British	Lotus-Climax	12	1
7	Jim Clark	British	Lotus-Climax	11	0
8	Bruce McLaren	New Zealander	Cooper-Climax	11	0
9	GBGiancarlo Baghetti	Italian	Ferrari	9	1
10	TBTony Brooks	British	BRM	6	0
11	Jack Brabham	Australian	Cooper-Climax	4	0
12	John Surtees	British	Cooper-Climax	4	0
13	Jackie Lewis	British	Cooper-Climax	3	0
14	Olivier Gendebien	Belgian	Emeryson / Ferrari / Lotus-Climax	3	0
15	JBJo Bonnier	Swedish	Porsche	3	0
16	Graham Hill	British	BRM	3	0
17	Roy Salvadori	British	Cooper-Climax	2	0
—	CACliff Allison	British	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	GAGerry Ashmore	British	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	Lorenzo Bandini	Italian	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	Edgar Barth	German	Porsche	0	0
—	Lucien Bianchi	Belgian	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	MBMenato Boffa	Italian	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	Juan Manuel Bordeu	Argentine	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	IBIan Burgess	British	Cooper-Climax / Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	RBRoberto Bussinello	Italian	De Tomaso-Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	JCJohn Campbell-Jones	British	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	BCBernard Collomb	French	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	GDGeoff Duke	British	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	JFJack Fairman	British	Cooper-Climax / Ferguson	0	0
—	KGKeith Greene	British	Gilby	0	0
—	Masten Gregory	American	Cooper-Climax / Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	JHJim Hall	American	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	WHWalt Hansgen	American	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	Hans Herrmann	German	Porsche	0	0
—	RLRoberto Lippi	Italian	De Tomaso-Osca	0	0
—	TMTony Maggs	South African	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	Willy Mairesse	Belgian	Ferrari / Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	TMTony Marsh	British	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	MMMichael May	Swiss	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	KMKen Miles	British	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	Peter Monteverdi	Swiss	MBM	0	0
—	MNMassimo Natili	Italian	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	BNBrian Naylor	British	JBW	0	0
—	TPTim Parnell	British	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	Roger Penske	American	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	RPRenato Pirocchi	Italian	Cooper-Climax / Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	EPErnesto Prinoth	Italian	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	RRRicardo Rodríguez	Mexican	Ferrari	0	0
—	LRLloyd Ruby	American	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	PRPeter Ryan	Canadian	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	GSGiorgio Scarlatti	Italian	De Tomaso-Osca	0	0
—	WSWolfgang Seidel	German	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	HSHap Sharp	American	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	GSGaetano Starrabba	Italian	Lotus-Maserati	0	0
—	TTTrevor Taylor	British	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	HTHenry Taylor	British	Lotus-Climax	0	0
—	ATAlfonso Thiele	Italian	Cooper-Climax	0	0
—	MTMaurice Trintignant	French	Cooper-Maserati	0	0
—	Nino Vaccarella	Italian	De Tomaso-Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Dutch	Porsche	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 44 of 61 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 8, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1961, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1961, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1961 is complete: all 8 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.