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Bruno Senna will start in pole position for the Belgian GP2 at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium after Karun Chandhok, who set the fastest time, was dropped 15 places down the grid.

There was a downpour in the minutes leading up to the 30-minute qualifying session, forcing the teams to change their set-ups and gameplan at short notice.

Indian Chandhok, who was penalised 10 spots in the sprint race in Spain for an accident involving Vitaly Petrov, set his mark of 2:15.489 with seconds remaining but ignored the yellow flags on his final lap to get another five spot penalty meaning he will begin from 16th on the grid.

His iSport team-mate Brazilian Senna led the way for most of the rain-lashed session and will start at the front as well as receive the two bonus points on offer for pole.

That controversial decision cuts the gap from championship leader Giorgio Pantano to 11 points.

Alvaro Parente of Super Nova will also start on the front row ahead of Romain Grosjean (ART Grand Prix) and Pantano.

Behind them are Andi Zuber (Piquet Sports), Mike Conway (Trident), Andy Soucek (Super Nova) and Pastor Maldonado (Piquet Sports).

Maldonado, who topped free practice, stopped the session after spinning out halfway through, while Lucas di Grassi , Sakon Yamamoto (ART), Kamui Kobayashi (DAMS) and Roldan Rodriguez (FMS) also crashed.

Sebastien Buemi (Arden) would have been on the third row but he was also dropped five spots for ignoring a yellow flag.

Jonathan Symcox / Eurosport