Silverstone, England ? Juan Pablo Montoya will be on the pole for the fourth consecutive race today.

The BMW Williams’ driver clocked a time of 1 minute, 18.998 seconds on his final lap of qualifying for the British Grand Prix on Saturday. It was the fifth pole of the season and eighth of Montoya’s career.

Montoya has been on the pole for the last three events but has failed to finish those races. He crashed once and had two engine failures. He is also winless this season going into the 10th race of the year.

“I’ll be happy to get to the end of the race and get some more points because I haven’t scored any points lately,” said the Colombian, who finished third at the Austrian GP on May 2.

“Of course, I want to win the race, but first you’ve got to finish.”

At Arrows, team director Tom Walkinshaw is just happy to start.

The multimillionaire Scotsman reached into his own pocket to pay off a debt to engine builder Cosworth reported at $4.7 million to keep his team out of bankruptcy on the eve of Sunday’s GP.

Arrows, kept out of practice Friday with mounting debt problems, ran Saturday with Heinz-Harald Frentzen finishing 16th and Enrique Bernoldi 18th.