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Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson stated he narrowly avoided a potentially fatal incident during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when a pair of track officials darted across the track immediately ahead of his car

The dangerous situation occurred on the third rotation when safety workers were observed on the circuit as Lawson was rejoining the race following an early pitstop to change his compromised front wing

Competitor's Live Reaction

Moments later, Racing Bulls driver Lawson radioed to his race engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you just see that? I nearly... ended their lives"

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

"I came out on a brand new hard tyres, and then I approached Turn One and unexpectedly appeared two individuals dashing across the track"

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

Track Safety Questioned

"Evidently there's been a failure in communication somewhere but This is the first time I've faced that before, and I can't recall observing that in the past. It's completely unacceptable"

"We fail to grasp how on a active circuit safety personnel can be allowed to just sprint across the track in that manner. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm certain we'll get some kind of clarification, but this must never be repeated"

Official Investigation Underway

The sport's regulatory authority, the global motorsport federation, is actively examining the situation

"Following a turn one incident, the race directors was notified that debris was present on the track at the critical section of that bend" commented the regulatory authority

"In the third rotation, track officials were informed and put on alert to enter the track and recover the debris once every vehicle had gone by"

"The moment it was realized that Lawson had made a pit stop, the instructions to dispatch officials were rescinded and a safety warning flag was shown in that section"

"Our inquiry continues what transpired after that point"