Alex Albon’s fifth place finish during Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix has been confirmed following an investigation into his Red Bull team’s acti꧙ons prior to the race.

The stewards summoned a Red Bull representative to see them after the race to investigatไe an alleged breach of the sporting regulations, after team members were seen using blowers they use to cool the car to dry Albon’s grid slot before the start.

FIA technical director Jo Bauer observe🐻d the team using leaf blowers toﷺ dry the damp track around Albon’s car and subsequently reported incident to the stewards once the race got underway.

"The Aston Martin Red Bull Racing team artificially dried the gridbo🌠x of car number 23 by using the engine cooling air of their leaf 💧blowers when using these to cool the car engine,” Bauer’s statement read.

"As this is in contradiction to the Race Directors Notes, Document 35, published on 19 July 2020 at 13:56hrs, Iam referring this matter to the Stewards for their consider𝓡ation.”

But after reviewin𝔉g video evidence of the incident, the Hungarian Grand Prix stewards “came to the conclusion that the c🌜ompetitor did not attempt to alter the grip of the track surface”.