Mika Hakkinen is to stay at McLaren next year, the double Formula One champion's manager, Keke Rosberg, said today.
"I would not be on a holiday at this moment if there was something unclear in Mika Hakkinen's agreement with McLaren," Rosberg told the Finnish tabloid newspaper Iltalehti.
"The fact that McLaren have not published their continuation agreement with Mika has nothing to do with Mika".
Rosberg would not comment further on the agreement between Hakkinen - who won the title in 1998 and 1999 - and McLaren and said it was the team's job to make it public when it felt the time was right.
"McLaren boss Ron Dennis, Mika and I have worked together for years, but we have never leaked into public details of former or new agreements or of ongoing negotiations," he said.