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Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson disclosed he narrowly avoided a life-threatening collision during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when two marshals ran across the track immediately ahead of his car

The alarming incident happened on the third rotation when safety workers were observed on the racing surface as Lawson was rejoining the race following an premature pit stop to replace his broken nose section

Driver's Immediate Reaction

Immediately after, Racing Bulls driver Lawson radioed to his race engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you just see that? I could have... killed them"

"I genuinely couldn't process 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 running across the track"

"I nearly hit one of them, honestly, it was extremely hazardous"

Track Safety Questioned

"Clearly there's been a failure in communication somewhere but I've never experienced that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's absolutely inexcusable"

"We cannot comprehend how on a active circuit safety personnel can be authorized to just dash across the track in that manner. I have no idea why, I'm confident we'll get some sort of explanation, but this absolutely cannot recur"

Formal Inquiry in Progress

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 fragments were located on the track at the apex of that corner" declared the FIA

"During the third lap, safety personnel were informed and put on alert to go onto the racing surface and recover the debris once the entire field had cleared the area"

"Immediately when it was understood that Lawson had made a pit stop, the directives to deploy officials were withdrawn and a caution signal was raised in that area"

"The examination is ongoing what transpired after that point"