🔗 Share this article {'I could have killed them' - Lawson encounters close call with F1 safety personnel Liam Lawson retired from Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix after sustaining front wing damage Formula 1 competitor Liam Lawson disclosed he came dangerously close to a life-threatening incident during Sunday's F1 event in Mexico when two safety personnel darted across the track right in his path The dangerous situation occurred on the third rotation when safety workers were spotted on the circuit as Lawson was rejoining the race following an quick visit to the pits to swap his broken nose section Driver's Immediate Reaction Immediately after, Racing Bulls driver Lawson radioed to his pit wall engineer saying: "Are you kidding me? Did you witness that? I could have... killed them" "I genuinely couldn't process what I was observing" "I rejoined with a brand new hard tyres, and then I got to Turn One and there were just two dudes dashing across the track" "I almost collided with one of them, frankly, it was incredibly risky" Track Safety Questioned "Clearly there's been a communication breakdown somehow but I've never experienced that before, and I haven't really seen that in the past. It's pretty unacceptable" "We can't understand how on a active circuit marshals can be permitted 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 this must never be repeated" Formal Inquiry in Progress F1's overseeing organization, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is thoroughly reviewing the circumstances "Following a turn one incident, the race directors was advised that fragments were located on the track at the turning point of that curve" stated the governing body "On lap three, safety personnel were informed and placed on standby to access the circuit and clear the fragments once the entire field had cleared the area" "Immediately when it was understood that Lawson had entered the pits, the directives to deploy personnel were canceled and a double yellow flag was shown in that section" "Our inquiry continues what happened after that point"