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Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson disclosed he barely escaped a potentially deadly accident during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when two marshals crossed the track right in his path

The alarming incident happened on the third circuit when track officials were seen on the circuit as Lawson was rejoining the race following an premature pit stop to swap his damaged front wing

Driver's Immediate Reaction

Shortly afterward, Racing Bulls driver Lawson spoke to his pit wall engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Could you believe what happened? I could have... killed them"

"I truly couldn't comprehend what I was seeing"

"I rejoined with a new set of hards, and then I approached Turn One and unexpectedly appeared two guys sprinting across the track"

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

Track Safety Questioned

"Evidently there's been a communication breakdown somehow but I've never encountered that before, and I haven't previously witnessed that in the past. It's pretty unacceptable"

"We can't understand how on a active circuit marshals can be allowed to just run across the track in that manner. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm certain we'll get some sort of explanation, but it really can't happen again"

Official Investigation Underway

The sport's regulatory authority, the FIA, is thoroughly reviewing the circumstances

"After an occurrence at turn one, race control was advised that fragments were located on the track at the turning point of that curve" stated the governing body

"In the third rotation, track officials were informed and placed on standby to go onto the racing surface and recover the debris once every vehicle had gone by"

"Immediately when it was understood that Lawson had pitted, the directives to deploy marshals were withdrawn and a caution signal was raised in that section"

"We are still investigating what occurred following that moment"