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The 2nd 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.