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Alonso to miss Australian race on medical advice

Fernando Alonso will miss the season-opening Grand Prix in Australia following his testing crash in Barcelona, McLaren confirmed on Tuesday. Although the team say Alonso is “entirely healthy from neurological and cardiac perspectives”, doctors have advised the Spaniard, who sustained a concussion in a testing accident on February 22, not to compete in the March 15 race.Alonso’s seat alongside Jenson Button will be filled by the McLaren’s test and reserve driver Kevin Magnussen, who competed in 19 races for the Woking squad last season.“Having performed an exhaustive series of tests and scans - some of them as recently as yesterday evening - McLaren-Honda...
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