Lewis Hamilton learns Saudi GP penalty fate after 'dangerous' move on F1 rival

Lewis Hamilton has avoided punishment for his "dangerous" actions at the . The Brit was investigated after the end of the day's running on Friday accused of having impeded on track during FP2.

The British-Thai racer had to take evasive action as he came across Hamilton's slow-moving while on a hot lap during that night session. "F***ing dangerous", Albon fumed over the radio, and it wasn't long before it was confirmed that for impeding another car.

But the stewards have now decided that no further action will be taken against the Brit despite his blocking of the on track. They explained: "We determined that Car 44 [Hamilton] unnecessarily impeded Car 23 [Albon] during Practice 2 at Turn 17.

"However, as agreed with the teams, unless the impeding during free practice was such that it could be regarded as dangerous, there will be no penalty for such impeding.

"During the hearing, the driver of Car 23 felt that he had the car under control at all times and while he was impeded, he did not consider the situation to be dangerous.

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"He had seen Car 44 in front of him during the corner before. However, he did not expect Car 44 to be in the position on track that he was in and that shocked the driver of Car 23 as he approached Turn 17 and had to take evasive action.

"While his immediate reaction when the incident occurred was to say that it was dangerous, having looked at it subsequently, he agreed that it was not. We accordingly took no further action."

Albon was not the only driver who Hamilton got on the wrong side of over the course of Friday's running at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. The Brit had a run-in with in the other Williams car during FP1, which saw the Spaniard also complain of "dangerous" actions.

Sainz came across Hamilton while on a flying lap at one of the many high-speed sections of the track and was clearly rattled when he turned a blind corner to find the slow-moving Ferrari ahead.

And Sainz turned the airwaves blue over the radio as he reported the near miss to his race engineer. "F**k. The Ferrari. Whoa, it's so dangerous," he said. "He cannot let me by there. Please, someone tell the Ferrari not to let by people there. It's so dangerous."

In commentary on the live coverage, former F1 driver said he could understand why Sainz was so upset. He said: "They're doing 160mph through that section of the circuit and it just caught him off guard where the Ferrari was dawdling around. The Ferrari did try to get out of the way but I think if you are going to get out of the way of people in that section, you need to go off the track."