Ferrari under pressure of RedBull, Mass also suffers more results. Massa and Alonso will have to overcome to put Ferrari back on top

Without even celebrate a title in the last three years, the Ferrari starts 2012 season with a series of taboos to break down. The Italian team - which will start the championship on Sunday in Australia, trying to fight against the domination of the recent Red Bull - is not the constructors championship since 2008 and does not take the cup of pilots since 2007. Felipe Massa has raced through the Ferrari when the team won their last cup. In 2008, the Brazilian formed with Kimi Raikkonen at McLaren duo who gave their last constructors' championship, the year that Lewis Hamilton, now at McLaren, was the champion among pilots. The team does not go through a similar drought since 1999, when he took the constructors' title in the fourth season of Michael Schumacher's Formula One team and ended a nuisance taboo 15 years without a title. Schumacher was also responsible for ending a sequence of 20 years of Ferrari without a champion rider. The German lifted the cup in 2000, the first time since 1979, when Jody Scheckter led the team to the highest place of the podium. Since then, Ferrari lives its worst drought without a champion rider. The latter was Kimi Raikkonen, then mate Felipe Massa - the Finn won the title in 2007, the last race, after ousting Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, who formed the duo McLaren that year. Massa, who was the last Ferrari to celebrate the glories of the team, will also start the season with a taboo to overcome discomfort.Without winning a race since early 2009 - the year he suffered a serious accident and missed the final eight races of the championship - the Brazilian is the first rider of the team to get three years without a win since Eddie Irvine, who did not go up in the most top of the podium between 1996 and 1998. Despite the drought of victories, Massa believes in a better performance of the Italian team this season."Last year we were well in the preseason, but take a second disadvantage in the first race. We had 90% sure that he would fight for the championship, but it would not be seen as well. Now hope that is the opposite, "said Massa, last Thursday, during a presentation of its new sponsorship. Based on the pre-season testing, Ferrari will struggle to break the taboos this year. Despite the good performance of Fernando Alonso, the training sessions were dominated by Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull.