FIA make Lewis Hamilton penalty decision after 'dangerous' incident during F1 practice in Saudi Arabia

The FIA have made their decision about handing Lewis Hamilton a penalty for a dangerous move made during a F1 practice session.

On Sunday afternoon, the Formula One grid will line up for the fifth race of the season at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Saudi Arabia.

Ahead of the race, the drivers spent Friday out on track for free practice sessions one and two, with the second session seeing plenty of drama including a dangerous move from Hamilton that led to an FIA investigation.

And now, Hamilton has learned exactly what punishment he will be handed for the move ahead of Sunday's race, as the FIA have made their decision.

Following the end of FP2 in Jeddah, The seven-time World Champion was investigated for a move during the session that led to him being accused of impeding Williams driver Alex Albon.

While on a hot lap through the circuit, the British-Thai driver was forced to suddenly take an evasive move to narrowly miss a huge crash with Hamilton, who was driving along slowly during the evening session.

Albon immediately got on to his team radio to accuse Hamilton of being "F***ing dangerous", leading to an investigation from the sport's governing body to determine if Hamilton's driving was worthy of him being handed a penalty in Sunday's race.

But, the Ferrari driver can rest easy, as an official statment from the FIA has confirmed that he will face no further action for the move.

It read: "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."

it continued: "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."

Hamilton will therefore compete as usual in the qualifying session for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix which is set to get underway at 18:00 on Saturday.