Michael Schumacher has promised an all-out attack on Fernando Alonso in the second half of the season after losing more ground to the world champion in the Canadian Grand Prix.

The Ferrari driver rescued second place in Montreal despite slipping to seventh on the opening lap, but still dropped further behind Alonso after a fourth consecutive win for the Spaniard.

Schumacher is now 25 points adrift with nine races remaining but refuses to lose hope and intends to crank up the pressure on Alonso, starting at Indianapolis next weekend.

“Our strategy can simply be to attack,” he said. “We tried to do that the whole year and this is what we will concentrate on in the next races.

“Then you can only see what the outcome is. There is no other strategy for us. You simply have to look at the points situation to see exactly what the gap is.”

The 37-year-old remains undaunted by Renault’s stunning form this season, which has seen the world champions win seven of the nine races so far.

Schumacher has won the other two and he hopes to revisit the top step of the podium next weekend in Indianapolis.

“We managed it twice this year but six times Fernando has won and we simply have to try to turn around that trend,” he added.

“We cannot and we will not give up hope because mathematically everything is still open and we strongly believe that. We will keep on fighting.”

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