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Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson stated he barely escaped a potentially fatal accident during Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix when two marshals crossed the track right in his path

The dangerous situation occurred on the third circuit when safety workers were observed on the racing surface as Lawson was returning to the race following an early pitstop to swap his broken nose section

Racer's Instant Response

Shortly afterward, the team's competitor Lawson radioed to his team engineer saying: "You've got to be joking? Could you believe what happened? I might have... taken their lives"

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

"I came out on a new set of hards, and then I approached Turn One and unexpectedly appeared two guys dashing across the track"

"I almost collided with one of them, frankly, it was extremely hazardous"

Track Safety Questioned

"Evidently there's been a miscommunication somehow 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 allowed to just sprint across the track in that manner. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm confident we'll get some kind of clarification, but it really can't happen again"

Formal Inquiry in Progress

The sport's regulatory authority, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is thoroughly reviewing the situation

"Following a turn one incident, race control was notified that wreckage remained on the track at the critical section of that bend" stated the FIA

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

"The moment it was realized that Lawson had entered the pits, the instructions to dispatch marshals were withdrawn and a double yellow flag was displayed in that section"

"Our inquiry continues what happened after that point"