The 21st Pau Grand Prix was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One 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 were fitted with engines that were bigger than the 1.5 litres allowed by the regulations. Lorenzo Bandini had a 2.5-litre engine, and Mário Cabral a 2-litre.^[1]

Pos	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	2.39:35.5	2
2	Jo Bonnier	Scuderia Colonia	Lotus-Climax	+ 1:30.8 s	10
3	Lorenzo Bandini	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper-Maserati	98 laps	5
4	Mário Cabral	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper-Maserati	97 laps	9
5	Jack Lewis	H & L Motors	Cooper-Climax	96 laps	4
6	Graham Eden	Graham Eden	Cooper-Climax	92 laps	12
7	Jo Schlesser	Inter-Autocourse	Cooper-Climax	77 laps - Misfire	11
Ret	Maurice Trintignant	Scuderia Serenissima	Cooper-Climax	Ignition	3
Ret	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	Gearbox	6
Ret	Wolfgang Seidel	Scuderia Colonia	Lotus-Climax	Gearbox	15
Ret	Olivier Gendebien	Equipe Nationale Belge	Emeryson-Maserati	Accident	8
Ret	Lucien Bianchi	Equipe Nationale Belge	Emeryson-Maserati	Accident	7
Ret	Ian Burgess	Camoradi International	Lotus-Climax	Gearbox	16
Ret	Jack Brabham	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	Fuel pump	1
Ret	André Wicky	André Wicky	Cooper-Climax	Big-end bearings	14
Ret	Gino Munaron	Gino Munaron	Cooper-Alfa Romeo	Con-rod	13
DNS	François Santé	François Santé	Cooper-Climax	Engine in practice	-
WD	Masten Gregory	Camoradi International	Cooper-Climax	Car not ready	-
WD	Wolfgang von Trips	Scuderia Colonia	Lotus-Climax	Seidel drove car	-
WD	Bernard Collomb	Bernard Collomb	Cooper-Climax	No car	-

• "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974.
• Results at www.silhouet.com [1]

• Full results details at formula2.net