{'I could have killed them' - Lawson encounters near miss with F1 safety personnel
Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson stated he narrowly avoided a potentially deadly accident during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when two safety personnel darted across the track directly in front of him
The concerning event happened on the third circuit when track officials were observed on the track as Lawson was rejoining the race following an early pitstop to swap his broken nose section
Racer's Instant Response
Moments later, the Formula 1 racer Lawson communicated to his pit wall engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Could you believe what happened? I nearly... ended their lives"
"I genuinely couldn't process what I was witnessing"
"I came out on a brand new hard tyres, and then I approached Turn One and there were just two guys dashing across the track"
"I came close to striking one of them, frankly, it was incredibly risky"
Track Safety Questioned
"Clearly there's been a failure in communication somehow 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 sure we'll get some kind of clarification, but it really can't happen again"
Governing Body Reviewing
F1's overseeing organization, the global motorsport federation, is thoroughly reviewing the circumstances
"Subsequent to a first corner event, the race directors was advised that fragments were located on the track at the turning point of that curve" declared the regulatory authority
"On lap three, marshals were informed and placed on standby to go onto the racing surface and remove the wreckage once every vehicle had gone by"
"The moment it was realized that Lawson had made a pit stop, the orders to send officials were canceled and a safety warning flag was raised in that section"
"Our inquiry continues what occurred after that point"
