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Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson disclosed he narrowly avoided a potentially fatal incident during Sunday's F1 event in Mexico when two marshals crossed the track immediately ahead of his car

The dangerous situation took place on the third rotation when safety workers were seen on the racing surface as Lawson was rejoining the race following an quick visit to the pits to change his broken nose section

Competitor's Live Reaction

Moments later, the team's competitor Lawson spoke to his team engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Could you believe what happened? I might have... taken their lives"

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

"I rejoined with a brand new hard tyres, and then I arrived at Turn One and unexpectedly appeared two dudes sprinting across the track"

"I almost collided with one of them, honestly, it was incredibly risky"

Track Safety Questioned

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

"We can't understand how on a live track track officials can be allowed to just sprint across the track in that manner. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm confident we'll get some sort of explanation, but this must never be repeated"

Official Investigation Underway

F1's overseeing organization, the global motorsport federation, is currently investigating the circumstances

"Subsequent to a first corner event, race control was informed that fragments were located on the track at the critical section of that bend" declared the governing body

"On lap three, marshals were notified and made ready to go onto the racing surface and remove the wreckage once the entire field had cleared the area"

"As soon as it became apparent that Lawson had pitted, the directives to deploy marshals were rescinded and a safety warning flag was displayed in that zone"

"The examination is ongoing what occurred subsequent to that time"