FUJI, Japan - Lewis Hamilton has said he does not think that he and Fernando Alonso can continue as McLaren team mates next year.

"No I don't," the championship-leading rookie told British Sunday newspaper reporters at the Japanese Grand Prix, where he qualified on pole position.

McLaren-Mercedes drivers, Lewis Hamilton (R), of Britain and Fernando Alonso of Spain, speak at a news conference after qualifying for Sunday's Formula One Japanese Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway circuit in Oyama, west of Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. Hamilton took the pole position and Alonso finished second. [Agencies]

"I mean, if the team wants to keep him they keep him but I'm here to stay as long as they want me," continued the 22-year-old.

"I don't know who else would slip in here, but I'd much rather it were Fernando in a Ferrari and me in a McLaren," added the Briton.

Hamilton was two points clear of the double world champion, who has been increasingly linked in the media to a return to Renault or move to Ferrari alongside Kimi Raikkonen, ahead of Sunday's race at Fuji.

The youngster is on course to become the first rookie to win the championship and he said his extraordinary debut season had brought home to him even more that he wanted a long-term contract with McLaren.

"This season has helped reconfirm in my mind where I want to be, where I want to live out my career, and that is here," he said. "I'm really happy and comfortable here. So long as they want me, there's no reason to move anywhere else."

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