Alonso wants to stay at McLaren - Haug

[The Stig]

Norbert Haug has again rejected persistent speculation that Fernando Alonso is looking to leave the McLaren team.

The German, who is competition director for McLaren's engine and equity partner Mercedes-Benz, recently flatly denied that Ron Dennis has given Alonso a green light to walk away from his contract amid his discomfort in 2007.

"There is a contract," Haug now tells the German-language news magazine Focus, referring to Spaniard Alonso's three year deal that began this season.

He added of Alonso: "And in Hungary, without being asked, he verbally confirmed that he intends to fulfil it."

Haug, meanwhile, described the intense rivalry between 26-year-old Alonso and his rookie teammate Lewis Hamilton as "healthy".

"In Hungary however it was not," the German added.