{'I could have killed them' - Lawson faces dangerous incident with F1 track officials
Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson revealed he barely escaped a potentially fatal accident during Sunday's F1 event in Mexico when two safety personnel ran across the track directly in front of him
The alarming incident took place on the third lap when marshals were seen on the racing surface as Lawson was returning to the race following an early pitstop to change his compromised front wing
Driver's Immediate Reaction
Shortly afterward, the team's competitor Lawson communicated to his team engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you just see that? I might have... taken their lives"
"I genuinely couldn't process what I was witnessing"
"I exited on a fresh hard compound tires, and then I arrived at Turn One and there were just two dudes dashing across the track"
"I almost collided with one of them, frankly, it was incredibly risky"
Security Issues Highlighted
"Evidently 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 cannot comprehend how on a live track marshals can be authorized to just dash across the track like that. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm certain we'll get some form of reasoning, but this absolutely cannot recur"
Formal Inquiry in Progress
Formula 1's governing body, the global motorsport federation, is thoroughly reviewing the circumstances
"Following a turn one incident, track officials was advised that wreckage remained on the track at the apex of that corner" declared the FIA
"In the third rotation, safety personnel were notified and placed on standby to enter the track and recover the debris once every vehicle had gone by"
"As soon as it became apparent that Lawson had made a pit stop, the directives to deploy officials were rescinded and a caution signal was raised in that zone"
"We are still investigating what transpired following that moment"