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Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson stated he narrowly avoided a potentially deadly incident during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when two safety personnel darted across the track directly in front of him

The dangerous situation took place on the third lap when safety workers were spotted on the track as Lawson was rejoining the race following an early pitstop to replace his compromised front wing

Competitor's Live Reaction

Moments later, the Formula 1 racer Lawson radioed to his pit wall engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Could you believe what happened? I might have... taken their lives"

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

"I exited on a new set of hards, and then I arrived at Turn One and unexpectedly appeared two guys sprinting across the track"

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

Track Safety Questioned

"Evidently there's been a communication breakdown somewhere but I've never encountered that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's completely unacceptable"

"We can't understand how on a live track safety personnel can be authorized to just dash across the track like that. I don't understand the reason, I'm confident we'll get some kind of clarification, but this must never be repeated"

Governing Body Reviewing

Formula 1's governing body, the global motorsport federation, is thoroughly reviewing the situation

"Following a turn one incident, the race directors was advised that wreckage remained on the track at the critical section of that bend" declared the governing body

"During the third lap, track officials were alerted and made ready to go onto the racing surface and remove the wreckage once the entire field had cleared the area"

"The moment it was realized that Lawson had pitted, the directives to deploy officials were canceled and a caution signal was raised in that section"

"Our inquiry continues what occurred subsequent to that time"