McLaren has received a suspended three race ban for misleading stewards at the Australian Grand Prix earlier this month.

The team was called to the Paris headquarters of the International Automobile Federation this morning.

McLaren were charged with five counts of bringing the sport into disrepute by deliberately misleading the stewards in Melbourne and then sticking to their story at the subsequent Malaysian Grand Prix.

World champion Lewis Hamilton was subsequently stripped of the third place he had been awarded by the stewards and both he and the team were excluded from the race results.