{'I could have killed them' - Lawson encounters dangerous incident with F1 track officials

Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson revealed he narrowly avoided a life-threatening incident during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when two marshals ran across the track immediately ahead of his car

The alarming incident occurred on the third lap when track officials were spotted on the circuit as Lawson was returning to the race following an early pitstop to change his broken nose section

Driver's Immediate Reaction

Moments later, the team's competitor Lawson radioed to his team engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you just see that? I might have... taken their lives"

"I truly couldn't comprehend what I was seeing"

"I came out on a fresh hard compound tires, and then I arrived at Turn One and suddenly there were two dudes running across the track"

"I almost collided with one of them, truthfully, it was incredibly risky"

Security Issues Highlighted

"Clearly there's been a failure in communication somewhere but I've never experienced that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's absolutely inexcusable"

"We fail to grasp how on a live track track officials can be allowed to just dash across the track in such a way. I don't understand the reason, I'm certain we'll get some form of reasoning, but this absolutely cannot recur"

Official Investigation Underway

The sport's regulatory authority, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is thoroughly reviewing the circumstances

"After an occurrence at turn one, track officials was informed that fragments were located on the track at the apex of that corner" commented the FIA

"In the third rotation, track officials were alerted and made ready to go onto the racing surface and remove the wreckage once all cars had passed"

"As soon as it became apparent that Lawson had pitted, the directives to deploy officials were canceled and a safety warning flag was displayed in that section"

"The examination is ongoing what occurred following that moment"