{'I could have killed them' - Lawson faces dangerous incident with F1 track officials
Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson disclosed he narrowly avoided a potentially deadly collision during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when two marshals crossed the track immediately ahead of his car
The dangerous situation occurred on the third circuit when marshals were seen on the circuit as Lawson was getting back on the race following an early pitstop to replace his compromised front wing
Competitor's Live Reaction
Immediately after, Racing Bulls driver Lawson spoke to his pit wall engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Did you just see that? I might have... taken their lives"
"I genuinely couldn't process what I was observing"
"I rejoined with a fresh hard compound tires, and then I approached Turn One and there were just two individuals sprinting across the track"
"I nearly hit one of them, truthfully, it was incredibly risky"
Track Safety Questioned
"Evidently there's been a miscommunication at some point but I've never encountered that before, and I haven't previously witnessed that in the past. It's absolutely inexcusable"
"We fail to grasp how on a active circuit marshals can be allowed to just run across the track in that manner. I don't understand the reason, I'm sure we'll get some sort of explanation, but it really can't happen again"
Official Investigation Underway
F1's overseeing organization, the FIA, is currently investigating the events
"Following a turn one incident, the race directors was informed that wreckage remained on the track at the turning point of that curve" declared the governing body
"In the third rotation, track officials were notified and placed on standby to go onto the racing surface and clear the fragments once the entire field had cleared the area"
"Immediately when it was understood that Lawson had made a pit stop, the instructions to dispatch officials were rescinded and a caution signal was displayed in that section"
"Our inquiry continues what happened subsequent to that time"