{'I could have killed them' - Lawson encounters dangerous incident with Formula 1 marshals
Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson disclosed he narrowly avoided a life-threatening accident during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when a pair of track officials crossed the track right in his path
The dangerous situation occurred on the third rotation when marshals were spotted on the track as Lawson was rejoining the race following an early pitstop to swap his compromised front wing
Racer's Instant Response
Moments later, the team's competitor Lawson radioed to his team engineer saying: "Is this for real? Did you just see that? I nearly... ended their lives"
"I truly couldn't comprehend what I was witnessing"
"I rejoined with a new set of hards, and then I approached Turn One and suddenly there were two individuals running across the track"
"I nearly hit one of them, frankly, it was incredibly risky"
Track Safety Questioned
"Evidently there's been a failure in communication somehow but I've never experienced 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 safety personnel can be authorized to just run across the track like that. I don't understand the reason, I'm confident we'll get some form of reasoning, but it really can't happen again"
Governing Body Reviewing
Formula 1's governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is actively examining the circumstances
"After an occurrence at turn one, track officials was notified that wreckage remained on the track at the apex of that corner" declared the regulatory authority
"During the third lap, marshals were alerted and put on alert to go onto the racing surface and remove the wreckage once all cars had passed"
"The moment it was realized that Lawson had made a pit stop, the orders to send officials were withdrawn and a caution signal was shown in that section"
"We are still investigating what occurred after that point"
