By alley - May 27, 2016, 11:31 AM ET

GP2: Honda's Matsushita elevated to pole for Monaco feature

Nobuharu Matsushita has been elevated to pole position for the reverse-grid Monaco GP2 race after a penalty for Antonio Giovinazzi.

Marvin Kirchhofer was set for Saturday pole by virtue of finishing eighth in Friday's opening race, with Giovinazzi joining him in an all-rookie front row after taking seventh. But a five-second penalty for gaining an advantage by cutting the chicane during the feature race dropped Giovinazzi from seventh in the results to 11th.

Kirchhofer still gets a front row start for the sprint race but being moved up to seventh in the race one results means he will now be second on the grid alongside ART's Honda protege Matsushita.

Daniel de Jong and Arthur Pic move up into the feature race top 10 as a result of Giovinazzi's demotion.

Gustav Malja was also given a post-race time penalty, in his case for cutting the track at Ste Devote, but it makes no difference to his 14th-place finish.

REVISED SATURDAY STARTING GRID

Pos	Driver	Team
1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix
2	Marvin Kirchhofer	Carlin
3	Raffaele Marciello	RUSSIAN TIME
4	Mitch Evans	Pertamina Campos Racing
5	Alex Lynn	DAMS
6	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport
7	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering
8	Artem Markelov	RUSSIAN TIME
9	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport
10	Arthur Pic	Rapax
11	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing
12	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin
13	Sean Gelael	Pertamina Campos Racing
14	Gustav Malja	Rapax
15	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing
16	Philo Paz Armand	Trident
17	Luca Ghiotto	Trident
18	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International
19	Jordan King	Racing Engineering
20	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International
21	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix
22	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS