Alonso 'happy' to stay at McLaren

"As far as I have a winning car I am happy (at McLaren). This year we have a winning car, we are first and second in the drivers' championship and leading the constructors' so I am happy," the Spaniard told reporters after qualifying for the Turkish Grand Prix.

"There are not many options (for next year). I have a contract with McLaren so the possibility for the near future is around here and driving for McLaren. As far as I know that is the only possibility."

Alonso's comments come after he had said yesterday that he was unsure about his future at the team.

The two-time champion, who had met with McLaren boss on Thursday in order to clear the air after the controversy of Hungary, said on Friday he didn't feel rewarded by the team for his work in helping them bounce back from their first win-less season in a decade.

The Spaniard tried to explain his remarks after today's qualifying.

"It was just that we worked together in the winter," said Alonso when asked about his comments.

"I think the team had the potential but it is also true that some (things) were not in the right direction, so with this experience of the last two years I worked, I tried to help things as much as I could, to find the right way as we are running now in our normal weekends and that is what I meant yesterday.

"The things is that we work together very hard for two or three months before the start of the season.

"I said it to everybody," he added. "What I mean is just that ... When we spoke in the meeting on Thursday we spoke about the way to go forward in this championship and we try to win the last six races and try to become champions.

"They have their approach and their thinking for the race to be equal and to give the same opportunities for everybody and completely understand and completely respect.

"I put to them my opinions, how they were last year and fighting to be in Q3, how they are this year winning races and we all agreed that most of these change has become from these things all over the winter and how the car improved. That is the only thing.

"We tried to put everything on the table together for everybody and that was the thing that I said yesterday and I am saying again today."