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Formula 1 racer Liam Lawson stated he came dangerously close to a potentially fatal accident during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when two marshals crossed the track directly in front of him

The alarming incident happened on the third rotation when track officials were seen on the track as Lawson was getting back on the race following an premature pit stop to change his compromised front wing

Racer's Instant Response

Immediately after, the team's competitor Lawson radioed to his team engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you just see that? I might have... taken their lives"

"I genuinely couldn't process what I was witnessing"

"I rejoined with a new set of hards, and then I arrived at Turn One and there were just two dudes sprinting across the track"

"I nearly hit 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 really seen that in the past. It's completely unacceptable"

"We can't understand how on a ongoing race track track officials can be permitted to just run across the track like that. I don't understand the reason, I'm confident we'll get some form of reasoning, but this absolutely cannot recur"

Official Investigation Underway

The sport's regulatory authority, the FIA, is currently investigating the circumstances

"Subsequent to a first corner event, race control was advised that wreckage remained on the track at the apex of that corner" stated the regulatory authority

"During the third lap, marshals were alerted and placed on standby to access the circuit and clear the fragments once the entire field had cleared the area"

"Immediately when it was understood that Lawson had entered the pits, the instructions to dispatch marshals were canceled and a caution signal was displayed in that area"

"We are still investigating what happened subsequent to that time"