{'I could have killed them' - Lawson experiences near miss with Formula 1 safety personnel
Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson disclosed he narrowly avoided a life-threatening collision during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when two marshals crossed the track immediately ahead of his car
The concerning event took place on the third circuit when track officials were spotted on the circuit as Lawson was getting back on the race following an quick visit to the pits to change his broken nose section
Driver's Immediate Reaction
Moments later, the Formula 1 racer Lawson communicated to his race engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Did you just see that? I might have... taken their lives"
"I truly couldn't comprehend what I was witnessing"
"I came out on a fresh hard compound tires, and then I got to Turn One and there were just two dudes dashing across the track"
"I nearly hit one of them, honestly, it was incredibly risky"
Track Safety Questioned
"Obviously there's been a miscommunication at some point but I've never encountered that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's completely unacceptable"
"We fail to grasp how on a ongoing race track marshals can be authorized to just dash across the track in such a way. I have no idea why, I'm certain we'll get some kind of clarification, but this absolutely cannot recur"
Official Investigation Underway
The sport's regulatory authority, the FIA, is thoroughly reviewing the circumstances
"Following a turn one incident, the race directors was informed that fragments were located on the track at the apex of that corner" declared the FIA
"In the third rotation, track officials were informed and put on alert to enter the track and remove the wreckage once the entire field had cleared the area"
"The moment it was realized that Lawson had made a pit stop, the directives to deploy marshals were rescinded and a safety warning flag was shown in that section"
"The examination is ongoing what transpired after that point"
