Fernando Alonso has pledged to honour the full term of his three-year deal with McLaren-Honda.
On a Japanese GP weekend which begun in the erroneous expectation that Jenson Button, Alonso's team-mate, would announce his retirement from F1, it was confusion about Alonso's future which instead transpired to be the major off-track talking point.
After his manager, Flavio Briatore, warned that Alonso could quit the team unless they delivered a winning car, the Spaniard himself was equivocal when he faced the press on Saturday evening in the wake of yet another undistinguished qualifying outing. The flames of speculation were fuelled further still when Alonso launched a series of humiliating outbursts over McLaren's team radio during a race which also doubled as Honda's home event.
Not content with lambasting the team's woeful display as "embarrassing" and "very embarrassing," the two-time world champion then castigated the Honda power unit by comparing it to a "GP2 engine".
But with the team seemingly on the cusp of a crisis and in danger of losing both of their former world champions, Alonso has calmed the waters by vowing to stay.
"No one should have any doubt that I have 3 years with McLaren and my career in F1 will end with this team, hopefully winning everything," Alonso tweeted.
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