{'I could have killed them' - Lawson faces close call with Formula 1 safety personnel
Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson disclosed he barely escaped a life-threatening collision during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when a pair of track officials ran across the track right in his path
The alarming incident happened on the third circuit when safety workers were spotted on the track as Lawson was getting back on the race following an quick visit to the pits to swap his damaged front wing
Driver's Immediate Reaction
Immediately after, Racing Bulls driver Lawson communicated to his pit wall engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you just see that? I could have... killed them"
"I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing"
"I exited on a new set of hards, and then I arrived at Turn One and suddenly there were two dudes sprinting across the track"
"I came close to striking one of them, truthfully, it was incredibly risky"
Track Safety Questioned
"Clearly there's been a miscommunication somehow but I've never encountered that before, and I haven't previously witnessed that in the past. It's completely unacceptable"
"We fail to grasp how on a live track marshals can be permitted to just run across the track in that manner. I have no idea why, I'm certain we'll get some form of reasoning, but this must never be repeated"
Official Investigation Underway
Formula 1's governing body, the global motorsport federation, is actively examining the situation
"After an occurrence at turn one, race control was advised that fragments were located on the track at the critical section of that bend" declared the FIA
"In the third rotation, marshals were notified and made ready to go onto the racing surface and recover the debris once every vehicle had gone by"
"As soon as it became apparent that Lawson had pitted, the instructions to dispatch officials were canceled and a double yellow flag was shown in that zone"
"The examination is ongoing what occurred subsequent to that time"