The Guards Trophy was an Intercontinental Formula motor race held on 7 August 1961 at Brands Hatch Circuit. The race was run over 76 laps of the circuit, and was won by Australian driver Jack Brabham in a Cooper T53-Climax. Brabham lapped the entire field. Jim Clark in a Lotus 18-Climax was second and Graham Hill in a BRM P48 was third. Bruce McLaren in another T53 set fastest lap and finished fourth. Stirling Moss qualified in pole position but retired with gearbox problems.^[1][2]

This was the final Intercontinental Formula race. The formula had been overshadowed by the new 1.5 litre Formula One championship^[3] and was quietly abandoned.

Pos	No.	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	2	Jack Brabham	Brabham Racing Organisation	Cooper T53-Climax	2:10:53.6	5
2	16	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	Lotus 18-Climax	+1 lap	7
3	28	Graham Hill	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P48	+1 lap	4
4	4	Bruce McLaren	C.T. Atkins	Cooper T53-Climax	+1 lap	2
5	6	Roy Salvadori	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T53-Climax	+2 laps	8
6	40	Lex Davison	Ecurie Australie	Aston Martin DBR4	+5 laps	13
7	30	Lorenzo Bandini	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper-Maserati	+42 laps	16
Ret.	26	Tony Brooks	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P48	51 laps, throttle linkage	10
Ret.	14	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	Lotus 18-Climax	34 laps, gearbox	6
Ret.	20	Dan Gurney	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	Lotus 18/21-Climax	26 laps, gearbox	9
Ret.	22	Bruce Halford	S.J. Diggory (Motors) Ltd.	Lotus 18-Climax	26 laps, crown wheel	14
Ret	34	Brian Naylor	JBW Cars	JBW-Maserati	25 laps, oil pressure	15
Ret.	12	Stirling Moss	R.R.C. Walker Racing Team	Cooper T53-Climax	23 laps, gearbox	1
Ret.	32	Massimo Natili	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51-Maserati	19 laps, clutch	17
Ret.	8	John Surtees	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T53-Climax	19 laps, crash	3
Ret.	36	Tony Marsh	Fred Tuck Cars	Cooper T45-Climax	9 laps, brake pipe	12
Ret.	18	Masten Gregory	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	Lotus 18/21-Climax	5 laps, crash	11
DNA	10		Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper
DNA	24	Chuck Daigh	Reventlow Automobiles Ltd.	Scarab-Meyer-Drake	Driver injured, car not repaired
DNA	38	Tommy Weber	G.R. Pennington	Tec-Mec-Maserati