19 Mar 2015

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Alonso back and preparing for Malaysia

ALAN BALDWIN
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<b>NOT A GOOD WEEKEND:</b> Kevin Magnussen's McLaren waits for rescue after crashing into a tyre wall during second practice for the 2015 Australian F1 GP. Fernando Alonso was sidelined with concussion <i>Image: AP / Rob Griffith</i>
<b>NOT A GOOD WEEKEND:</b> Kevin Magnussen's McLaren waits for rescue after crashing into a tyre wall during second practice for the 2015 Australian F1 GP. Fernando Alonso was sidelined with concussion <i>Image: AP / Rob Griffith</i>

LONDON, England - McLaren's Fernando Alonso put in a day's work with the team's Formula 1 simulator on Wednesday (March 18 2015) ahead of his expected return to the track in Malaysia for the March 29 Sepang race.

The Spaniard told his followers on Twitter that it had been "a great day" at the UK factory while McLaren said the two-times champion focused on operational work and practising qualifying and race procedures.

Alonso missed the March 15 season-opening Australian GP - it would have been his first race back with McLaren after leaving Ferrari - on doctors' orders after being concussed in a crash at the Catalunya track near Barcelona in Spain.

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