Juan the man on pole

Colombia's Juan Pablo Montoya judged his final run to perfection to grab pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.

Formula One rookie Montoya snatched the important first place on the grid from Williams-BMW team-mate Ralf Schumacher on a shocking day for David Coulthard.

Ferrari's newly-crowned world champion Michael Schumacher cruised to a comfortable third place, with the German celebrating his 10th anniversary in Formula One.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen also conjured up a late flying lap to take an unexpected fourth spot - Prost's best of the year - with Rubens Barrichello fifth for Ferrari and Jacques Villeneuve sixth for BAR.

McLaren's Coulthard, whose time on the track has been severely restricted, was back in ninth spot - his worst of the campaign - with Jenson Button 15th for Benetton and Eddie Irvine 17th for Jaguar.

Grid for Sunday's Belgian Formula One Grand Prix, the 14th round of the 17-race world championship, following official qualifying

1. Juan-Pablo Montoya (Col) Williams-BMW 1min 52.072sec,
2. Ralf Schumacher (Ger) Williams-BMW 1:52.959
3. Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari 1:54.685, 4. Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Ger) Prost-Acer 1:55.233
5. Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Ferrari 1:56.116,
6. Jacques Villeneuve (Can) BAR-Honda 1:57.038
7. Mika Hakkinen (Fin) McLaren-Mercedes 1:57.043,
8. Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Benetton-Renault 1:57.558
9. David Coulthard (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 1:58.088,
10. Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) Jaguar 1:58.519
11. Olivier Panis (Fra) BAR-Honda 1:58.838,
12. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Sauber-Petronas 1:59.050
13. Jean Alesi (Fra) Jordan-Honda 1:59.128,
14. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Sauber-Petronas 1:59.302
15. Jenson Button (Gbr) Benetton-Renault 1:59.587,
16. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Jordan-Honda 1:59.647
17. Eddie Irvine (Gbr) Jaguar 1:59.689,
18. Luciano Burti (Bra) Prost-Acer 1:59.900