Alonso 'will not leave McLaren'

Fernando Alonso is intending to stay at McLaren next season despite claims his relationship with the team has broken down so badly as to become untenable.

The world champion's manager, Luis Garcia, told BBC Sport the world champion could not leave the team.

"We have an agreement. We are not negotiating with anybody and our plan is to continue here," he said.

Asked if the Spaniard was happy to honour his three-year deal, Garcia added: "He has to do."

But he did not deny that Alonso was unhappy within the team.

Claims that he cannot stay at McLaren have emerged at a politically-charged Belgian Grand Prix weekend.

It has been claimed that Alonso threatened McLaren boss Ron Dennis at the Hungarian Grand Prix last month to reveal the e-mail exchange between himself and test driver Pedro de la Rosa that formed the new evidence leading to new charges against McLaren in F1's spy scandal.

McLaren were on Thursday thrown out of this year's constructors' championship and fined $100m (�49.2m) for using confidential Ferrari information.

Reports have suggested Alonso told Dennis he would show the e-mails to Max Mosley, president of the sport's governing body the FIA, if he did not give Alonso number one status at McLaren over Lewis Hamilton.

Dennis is said to have called is bluff, telling Alonso to go ahead. At which point, it is claimed, Dennis then phoned Mosley himself, effectively handing his team in to the FIA.

In the meantime, Alonso had decided not to go through with his it. Garcia, however, denied Alonso had threatened Dennis in that way.

"It's not true, and it's not possible," he said. "The facts say it is not true because it happened in a dfferent way."

He did not elaborate.

Source: BBC Sport