{'I could have killed them' - Lawson experiences dangerous incident with Formula 1 safety personnel

Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson disclosed he barely escaped a potentially deadly collision during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when two safety personnel darted across the track directly in front of him

The alarming incident occurred on the third circuit when marshals were spotted on the track as Lawson was getting back on the race following an premature pit stop to swap his broken nose section

Competitor's Live Reaction

Immediately after, the Formula 1 racer Lawson spoke to his team engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Did you just see that? I nearly... ended their lives"

"I genuinely couldn't process what I was observing"

"I came out on a new set of hards, and then I approached Turn One and unexpectedly appeared two guys dashing across the track"

"I nearly hit one of them, frankly, it was so dangerous"

Track Safety Questioned

"Clearly there's been a failure in communication somewhere but I've never experienced that before, and I can't recall observing that in the past. It's pretty unacceptable"

"We cannot comprehend how on a live track safety personnel can be authorized to just dash across the track in that manner. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm sure we'll get some form of reasoning, but this absolutely cannot recur"

Formal Inquiry in Progress

F1's overseeing organization, the global motorsport federation, is actively examining the events

"Following a turn one incident, race control was informed that fragments were located on the track at the turning point of that curve" commented the governing body

"In the third rotation, track officials were informed and made ready to access the circuit and clear the fragments once every vehicle had gone by"

"As soon as it became apparent that Lawson had pitted, the directives to deploy marshals were rescinded and a caution signal was raised in that zone"

"We are still investigating what occurred after that point"