🔗 Share this article {'I could have killed them' - Lawson faces dangerous incident with Formula 1 safety personnel Liam Lawson withdrew from Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix after sustaining front wing damage Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson revealed he barely escaped a potentially deadly collision during Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix when two safety personnel darted across the track immediately ahead of his car The alarming incident took place on the third lap when track officials were spotted on the racing surface as Lawson was rejoining the race following an quick visit to the pits to change his damaged front wing Driver's Immediate Reaction Moments later, the team's competitor Lawson radioed to his pit wall engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you just see that? I could have... killed them" "I genuinely couldn't process what I was observing" "I exited on a brand new hard tyres, and then I got to Turn One and there were just two individuals dashing across the track" "I nearly hit one of them, truthfully, it was incredibly risky" Safety Concerns Raised "Evidently there's been a communication breakdown somewhere but I've never experienced that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's completely unacceptable" "We fail to grasp how on a active circuit safety personnel can be authorized to just dash across the track like that. I'm clueless about the cause, I'm confident we'll get some kind of clarification, but it really can't happen again" Official Investigation Underway Formula 1's governing body, the global motorsport federation, is thoroughly reviewing the events "Following a turn one incident, the race directors was advised that debris was present on the track at the turning point of that curve" stated the FIA "During the third lap, marshals were notified and placed on standby to enter the track and recover the debris once every vehicle had gone by" "The moment it was realized that Lawson had entered the pits, the directives to deploy personnel were withdrawn and a caution signal was displayed in that area" "We are still investigating what transpired following that moment"