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Alonso ruled out of season-opening Australian GP

Fernando Alonso will not race in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix following a crash during Formula One testing that sent him to the hospital for three days, McLaren said Tuesday. The decision was taken to avoid the chance of Alonso having another concussion -- second-impact syndrome -- following the accident at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit last month, the team said in a statement. McLaren maintained that Alonso's doctors 'see no evidence whatsoever of any injury, and that they therefore describe him as entirely healthy from neurological and cardiac perspectives.' Reserve driver Kevin Magnussen will take Alonso's place in the March 15 race in Melbourne. 'It was not...
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