🔗 Share this article {'I could have killed them' - Lawson faces dangerous incident with F1 marshals Liam Lawson retired from Sunday's race in Mexico City after experiencing front wing damage Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson stated he barely escaped a life-threatening accident during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when two safety personnel ran across the track right in his path The dangerous situation happened on the third circuit when marshals were seen on the racing surface as Lawson was getting back on the race following an quick visit to the pits to swap his broken nose section Driver's Immediate Reaction Moments later, the Formula 1 racer Lawson radioed to his race engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you witness that? I might have... taken their lives" "I truly couldn't comprehend what I was seeing" "I exited on a brand new hard tyres, and then I arrived at Turn One and suddenly there were two dudes sprinting across the track" "I came close to striking one of them, honestly, it was incredibly risky" Security Issues Highlighted "Obviously there's been a miscommunication somehow but I've never experienced 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 track officials can be authorized to just dash across the track in such a way. I don't understand the reason, I'm confident we'll get some form of reasoning, but this absolutely cannot recur" Official Investigation Underway Formula 1's governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is actively examining the events "Following a turn one incident, track officials was informed that wreckage remained on the track at the critical section of that bend" commented the governing body "On lap three, track officials were informed and placed on standby to enter the track and clear the fragments once every vehicle had gone by" "Immediately when it was understood that Lawson had made a pit stop, the instructions to dispatch personnel were rescinded and a caution signal was shown in that section" "We are still investigating what happened following that moment"