article_snippet: The double world champion was concussed and airlifted to hospital after losing control of Kevin Magnussen McLaren at the penultimate winter test in Barcelona last month.
article_snippet: The Spaniard is now recovering at home but doctors have indicated returning to racing in Melbourne three weeks after after the high impact could be too risky.
article_snippet: McLaren explained in a statement: "Fernando's doctors have recommended to McLaren that, following the concussion McLaren sustained on February 22nd, for the time being McLaren should seek to limit as far as is possible any environmental risk factors that could potentially result in McLaren sustaining another concussion.
article_snippet: Fernando Alonso's return to the starting grid in McLaren colors has been delayed by McLaren freakish crash at the Circuit de Catalunya, home to the Spanish Grand Prix.
article_snippet: McLaren had explained that Fernando Alonso's "accident was caused by the unpredictably gusty winds at that part of the circuit at that time.
article_snippet: Turn Three, where Alonso's "accident took place, is an area of the circuit where cross winds are known to affect the balance of the cars.
article_snippet: But McLaren return to the racing asphalt has now been delayed until at least the Malaysian Grand Prix at the end of March despite doctors saying McLaren has no symptoms of illness.
article_snippet: Fernando Alonso's doctors have informed McLaren that Alonso's doctors find McLaren asymptomatic of any medical issue; that Alonso's doctors see no evidence whatsoever of any injury," McLaren said in a statement.
article_snippet: Early reliability problems meant Fernando Alonso had only completed 117 laps in his McLaren-Honda car for the Malaysian Grand Prix before Fernando Alonso preseason was curtailed by the crash.
highlights_snippet: The double world champion suffered concussion in testing crash for McLaren .
  