London, England - McLaren's Fernando Alonso has been cleared to travel to Malaysia for the second race of the Formula One season after passing medical tests in England.
Spanish sports newspapers Marca and AS, quoting sources close to the driver, reported on Sunday that Alonso had short and long-term memory and reflex checks in Cambridge.
There was no immediate comment from McLaren.
Alonso, who suffered concussion after crashing in testing in Barcelona in February, missed the Australian season-opener on 15 March and must still pass FIA tests at the Sepang circuit on Thursday before being allowed to race.
His manager has said those should be a formality.
TEMPORARY MEMORY LOSS
McLaren, which has not won a race since 2012, was woefully off the pace in Australia with Jenson Button finishing last in 11th place after he and Danish team mate Kevin Magnussen qualified on the back row.
Alonso is returning to McLaren, the team he drove for in 2007, after five years at Ferrari and at the start of a new Honda-powered era for the former champions.
He suffered temporary memory loss in his crash, with some reports suggesting he had forgotten in the immediate aftermath that he was a Formula One driver and could not initially remember anything after 1995.
However McLaren racing director Eric Boullier played that down at the time, saying the Spaniard - who spent three nights in hospital - had suffered “a normal concussion” and everything was back to normal.
Reuters