Hamilton airlifted to hospital

(GMM) Lewis Hamilton has been airlifted to a nearby hospital following his horror 250kph crash during Nurburgring qualifying on Saturday.

Two hours after decelerating violently due to a wheel failure in the Schumacher-S complex, the McLaren rookie emerged from the medical centre still on a stretcher and was loaded into a waiting helicopter.

It is understood that he was flown to the Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus in Koblenz.

Hamilton, 22, was no longer wearing an oxygen mask but he still had an arm-drip attached, and possibly a heart-monitor.

His concerned father Anthony is believed to have followed Lewis to hospital.