The 21st

Pau Grand Prix The Pau Grand Prix (french: Grand Prix de Pau) is a motor race held in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of southwestern France. The French Grand Prix was held at Pau in 1930, leading to the annual Pau Grand Prix being inaugurat ...

was a non-Championship motor race, run to

Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...

rules, held on 3 April 1961 at Pau Circuit, the street circuit in Pau. The race was run over 100 laps of the circuit, and was won by Jim Clark in a Lotus 18. This was Clark's first Formula One victory. The cars entered by

Scuderia Centro Sud Scuderia Centro Sud was a privateer racing team founded in Modena by Guglielmo "Mimmo" Dei and active in Formula One and sports car racing between 1956 and 1965. Dei had been an amateur driver in the 1930s. In the early 1950s he opened a Maser ...

were fitted with engines that were bigger than the 1.5 litres allowed by the regulations.

Lorenzo Bandini Lorenzo Bandini (21 December 193510 May 1967) was an Italian motor racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Scuderia Centro Sud and Ferrari teams. Career Bandini was born in Barce in Cyrenaica, Libya,"Hulme Takes Monaco Race; Bandini S ...

had a 2.5-litre engine, and Mário Cabral a 2-litre."The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974, pp. 15.

Results

References

* "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974. * Results at www.silhouet.co

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1961 Glover Trophy 1961 Formula One races, Glover Trophy Glover Trophy 20th century in West Sussex 1961 in British motorsport, Glover ...

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1962 Pau Grand Prix The 22nd Pau Grand Prix was a non-Championship motor race, run for Formula One cars, held on 23 April 1962 at Pau Circuit, the street circuit in Pau. The race was run over 100 laps of the circuit, and was won by Maurice Trintignant in a Lotus 1 ...

External links

Full results details at formula2.net

Pau Grand Prix 1961 in French motorsport