{'I could have killed them' - Lawson encounters near miss with F1 marshals
Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson disclosed he came dangerously close to a life-threatening incident during Sunday's F1 event in Mexico when two marshals ran across the track right in his path
The alarming incident happened on the third circuit when safety workers were seen on the circuit as Lawson was rejoining the race following an early pitstop to swap his broken nose section
Driver's Immediate Reaction
Immediately after, Racing Bulls driver Lawson radioed to his team engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Could you believe what happened? I might have... taken their lives"
"I truly couldn't comprehend what I was seeing"
"I exited on a fresh hard compound tires, and then I arrived at Turn One and there were just two dudes dashing across the track"
"I nearly hit one of them, truthfully, it was extremely hazardous"
Track Safety Questioned
"Clearly 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 pretty unacceptable"
"We cannot comprehend how on a live track track officials can be permitted to just run across the track in such a way. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm certain we'll get some form of reasoning, but this must never be repeated"
Governing Body Reviewing
F1's overseeing organization, the global motorsport federation, is currently investigating the circumstances
"Subsequent to a first corner event, race control was notified that fragments were located on the track at the turning point of that curve" declared the governing body
"During the third lap, marshals were informed and put on alert to access the circuit and recover the debris once the entire field had cleared the area"
"As soon as it became apparent that Lawson had pitted, the directives to deploy personnel were withdrawn and a double yellow flag was displayed in that zone"
"Our inquiry continues what happened after that point"
