{'I could have killed them' - Lawson experiences dangerous incident with F1 marshals
Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson stated he barely escaped a potentially deadly accident during Sunday's F1 event in Mexico when two safety personnel ran across the track immediately ahead of his car
The dangerous situation occurred on the third lap when marshals were seen on the track as Lawson was rejoining the race following an premature pit stop to swap his damaged front wing
Racer's Instant Response
Shortly afterward, the team's competitor Lawson radioed to his pit wall engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Did you witness that? I could have... killed them"
"I genuinely couldn't process what I was witnessing"
"I exited on a fresh hard compound tires, and then I got to Turn One and there were just two guys sprinting across the track"
"I came close to striking one of them, frankly, it was extremely hazardous"
Safety Concerns Raised
"Clearly there's been a failure in communication at some point but I've never encountered that before, and I can't recall observing that in the past. It's completely unacceptable"
"We cannot comprehend how on a active circuit safety personnel can be permitted to just run across the track in such a way. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm confident we'll get some form of reasoning, but this absolutely cannot recur"
Formal Inquiry in Progress
Formula 1's governing body, the FIA, is actively examining the situation
"Subsequent to a first corner event, the race directors was notified that fragments were located on the track at the critical section of that bend" stated the regulatory authority
"In the third rotation, track officials were alerted and made ready to access the circuit and recover the debris once every vehicle had gone by"
"Immediately when it was understood that Lawson had made a pit stop, the instructions to dispatch officials were rescinded and a caution signal was shown in that zone"
"Our inquiry continues what occurred after that point"
