Alex Albon has been dropped down the grid for Formula 1's Miami sprint race after the FIA missed a track limits offence that should have been punished in qualifying.

Albon made it into SQ2 in Miami and outpaced Williams team-mate Carlos Sainz on his way to a theoretical 14th place on the grid for Saturday's race.

But he will start 19th as he has been stripped of all his SQ2 times and his fastest SQ1 lap.

The precedent for this comes from last year's Bahrain GP, where the FIA missed a Nico Hulkenberg infringement and he was allowed to proceed to Q2 - ironically having knocked out Albon.

Liam Lawson, who ran back to his car after getting knocked out in SQ1 in Miami as his Racing Bulls team thought Albon might get swiftly disqualified, lost out because of the oversight.

He will now gain one grid position from Albon's times being removed and start 16th.