Alonso should have been allowed to race - Dennis


Formula One - Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, Bahrain - 31/03/16 - McLaren Honda Formula One driver, Fernando Alonso of Spain, listens to a journalist during the drivers press conference ahead of the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

MANAMA (Reuters) - Aggrieved McLaren boss Ron Dennis says Formula One teams must decide whether a driver is fit to race, rather than the governing body's doctors, after Fernando Alonso was barred from the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Spaniard Alonso failed a medical at the Sakhir circuit on Thursday after breaking ribs in a huge Australian Grand Prix crash.

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