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Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson stated he came dangerously close to a potentially deadly incident during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when a pair of track officials ran across the track directly in front of him

The alarming incident happened on the third rotation when track officials were spotted on the track as Lawson was getting back on the race following an early pitstop to replace his compromised front wing

Driver's Immediate Reaction

Shortly afterward, the team's competitor Lawson radioed to his team engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Could you believe what happened? I nearly... ended their lives"

"I honestly couldn't believe what I was observing"

"I exited on a brand new hard tyres, and then I arrived at Turn One and there were just two guys running across the track"

"I came close to striking one of them, honestly, it was so dangerous"

Security Issues Highlighted

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

"We fail to grasp how on a ongoing race track marshals can be authorized to just dash across the track like that. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm confident we'll get some form of reasoning, but this absolutely cannot recur"

Governing Body Reviewing

Formula 1's governing body, the global motorsport federation, is actively examining the situation

"After an occurrence at turn one, race control was informed that debris was present on the track at the apex of that corner" commented the governing body

"During the third lap, safety personnel were informed and placed on standby 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 directives to deploy marshals were canceled and a safety warning flag was displayed in that zone"

"We are still investigating what happened after that point"