Lewis Hamilton has managed to escape punishment for an incident in FP2 involving Alex Albon.

The Ferrari driver, 40, was summoned to the stewards after Albon was forced to take evasive action at Turn 17 to avoid Hamilton.

Hamilton was accused of impeding the Williams driver who labelled the incident 'dangerous' on his team radio.

But after talking to the stewards, Hamilton escaped a penalty despite deeming that he "unnecessarily impeded" his rival.

The FIA explained: "During the hearing, the driver of Car 23 (Albon) 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. 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."