Montoya clinches pole for Grand Prix - report
Juan Pablo Montoya continued his recent domination of pole position by clinching his fourth in a row as just over four-hundredths of a second separated the top three in qualifying for Sunday's British Grand Prix.
Montoya blitzed round Silverstone in a time of one minute 18.998 seconds on his final run and as the hour-long session had just expired to oust Ferrari duo Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher from the front row of the grid.
It was the Williams star's eighth pole of his career, although the Colombian will be hoping for better luck during the race in comparison to his last three poles as he has twice retired and once suffered an accident.
Barrichello was just 0.034secs adrift, with four-time world champion Schumacher a further 0.010secs behind, with the German on the second row for the fourth time in five races.
David Coulthard, race winner in 1999 and 2000, had to settle for sixth behind team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, with the 31-year-old Scot just over 1.3secs slower than Montoya.
Of the other Britons, Jenson Button suffered a disaster on his first timed lap, with the engine blowing on his Renault as he made his way through Maggotts, moments after Giancarlo Fisichella had pulled his problem-hit Jordan off the track at Stowe.
Button was at least able to complete qualifying in the T-car already set up for the 22-year-old, in preference to team-mate Jarno Trulli, but was down in 12th in 1min 21.247secs.
The high hopes of Jaguar ahead of the race, following the recent modifications to the woeful R3, were shattered as Ireland's Eddie Irvine languished in 19th, while team-mate Pedro de la Rosa was 21st.
Toyota's Allan McNish, in his first British Grand Prix, was a respectable 15th, but seven places behind his team-mate Mika Salo in a season-high eighth.
The Minardi of Alex Yoong was outside the 107% time limit for the second time this season, and will have to apply to race stewards to gain entry to the race.
