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Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson revealed he narrowly avoided a potentially fatal collision during Sunday's F1 event in Mexico when a pair of track officials ran across the track directly in front of him

The alarming incident happened on the third circuit when marshals were observed on the circuit as Lawson was rejoining the race following an quick visit to the pits to change his broken nose section

Racer's Instant Response

Immediately after, Racing Bulls driver Lawson radioed to his pit wall engineer saying: "Is this for real? Did you witness that? I might have... taken their lives"

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

"I rejoined with a brand new hard tyres, and then I got to Turn One and there were just two guys dashing across the track"

"I nearly hit one of them, honestly, it was incredibly risky"

Track Safety Questioned

"Obviously there's been a miscommunication somewhere but I've never encountered that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's absolutely inexcusable"

"We fail to grasp how on a ongoing race track marshals can be authorized to just sprint across the track in such a way. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm certain we'll get some sort of explanation, but this absolutely cannot recur"

Official Investigation Underway

The sport's regulatory authority, the FIA, is thoroughly reviewing the situation

"After an occurrence at turn one, race control was informed that fragments were located on the track at the apex of that corner" declared the governing body

"On lap three, marshals were informed and placed on standby to go onto the racing surface and remove the wreckage once every vehicle had gone by"

"As soon as it became apparent that Lawson had entered the pits, the directives to deploy personnel were withdrawn and a caution signal was displayed in that section"

"We are still investigating what transpired after that point"