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Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson disclosed he narrowly avoided a potentially deadly accident during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when a pair of track officials ran across the track right in his path

The alarming incident happened on the third lap when track officials were observed on the track 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

Immediately after, the team's competitor Lawson spoke to his race engineer saying: "Is this for real? Could you believe what happened? I nearly... ended their lives"

"I genuinely couldn't process what I was seeing"

"I rejoined with a brand new hard tyres, and then I got to Turn One and there were just two guys sprinting across the track"

"I nearly hit one of them, frankly, it was incredibly risky"

Track Safety Questioned

"Obviously there's been a miscommunication somewhere but I've never encountered that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's absolutely inexcusable"

"We can't understand how on a ongoing race track track officials can be permitted to just sprint across the track like that. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm sure we'll get some kind of clarification, but this absolutely cannot recur"

Official Investigation Underway

Formula 1's governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is actively examining the events

"After an occurrence at turn one, race control was notified that fragments were located on the track at the apex of that corner" commented the FIA

"In the third rotation, marshals were informed and placed on standby to enter the track and remove the wreckage once the entire field had cleared the area"

"The moment it was realized that Lawson had entered the pits, the directives to deploy personnel were canceled and a safety warning flag was shown in that section"

"We are still investigating what happened following that moment"