{'I could have killed them' - Lawson experiences near miss with Formula 1 safety personnel
Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson disclosed he came dangerously close to a life-threatening accident during Sunday's F1 event in Mexico when a pair of track officials darted across the track immediately ahead of his car
The alarming incident occurred on the third circuit when safety workers 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
Competitor's Live Reaction
Moments later, the Formula 1 racer Lawson radioed to his team engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Did you just see that? I nearly... ended their lives"
"I truly couldn't comprehend what I was witnessing"
"I came out on a brand new hard tyres, and then I arrived at Turn One and there were just two guys dashing across the track"
"I came close to striking one of them, frankly, it was so dangerous"
Track Safety Questioned
"Evidently there's been a communication breakdown at some point but I've never experienced that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's absolutely inexcusable"
"We can't understand how on a live track track officials can be authorized to just run across the track in such a way. I have no idea why, I'm sure we'll get some kind of clarification, but this must never be repeated"
Formal Inquiry in Progress
F1's overseeing organization, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is currently investigating the situation
"Following a turn one incident, the race directors was notified that wreckage remained on the track at the turning point of that curve" stated the governing body
"During the third lap, marshals were alerted and put on alert to enter the track and remove the wreckage once every vehicle had gone by"
"The moment it was realized that Lawson had entered the pits, the directives to deploy marshals were canceled and a caution signal was raised in that section"
"The examination is ongoing what occurred after that point"
