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Jase Lopuszanski

Reduce Costs Not Test Days

30 August 2010 08:08 AM
I think it was the Monaco Grand Prix in 1999 that saw Michael Schumacher return to Fiorano on the Friday rest day to practice starts. By the time the race rolled around on Sunday, Schumacher, starting second on the grid alongside Mika Hakkinen, got a brilliant start and took the lead and never looked back, [...]
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Learnings of Motorsport For Make Benefit of Glorious Traffic Conditions

02 August 2010 19:08 PM
I was thinking about Sebastian Vettel on my way to work this morning. My initial reaction was to complete my journey as soon as possible and wash myself repeatedly with steel wool and bleach, but my attempts to achieve this were thwarted by a traffic jam. ‘Oh’, I chortled to myself, ‘what irony’. Sure, the [...]
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Rest In Peace

24 July 2010 08:07 AM
For much of the last four months I have operated on autopilot, denying my feelings the opportunity to reach the surface. It’s not as though I haven’t laughed or enjoyed myself in this time, because I have, it’s more that I’ve built a wall around whatever part of the brain it is that gives birth [...]
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10 Things I Hate About Paris

16 July 2010 21:07 PM
1/ My flight to Paris, which was delayed 2/ The metro ticket machine that only accepted coins. 3/ A one way ticket to Paris costing almost 9 Euros. 4/ No one around to assist tourists. 5/ The train that was so packed I had to sit my luggage on my lap. 6/ The small French [...]
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Christmas In July

13 July 2010 06:07 AM
I could never get to sleep on Christmas Eve. And when I finally did doze off, I would always wake moments later, certain I had slept well past the time set by my parents as an appropriate hour to open presents. Last night, my sleep was similarly disrupted. Sure I dozed here and there, but [...]
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It Isn’t Always Black and White

10 July 2010 06:07 AM
Dear Mum, When I imagine your childhood the moments are always black and white, mostly because all the photos I have seen have been in monotone, but partly because I know you grew up in England, and the only colours there are shades of grey. Or so I thought. My time in Salisbury, where you [...]
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I Spy With The London Eye

08 July 2010 20:07 PM
The flight in to London was probably one of my more anxious flying experiences. I haven’t done a great deal of flying before, in fact this was probably my 23rd or 24th flight, but when your plane is circling above London and a bit of turbulence is thrown in to the mix, it’s bound to [...]
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So Long Abu Dhabi

06 July 2010 13:07 PM
Abu Dhabi is a lot like Melbourne, only not. For starters Abu Dhabi is green. Not green with envy, but green like a rainforest, which is surprising since you’re in the friggen desert. Abu Dhabi is so green that if it weren’t for the incredible heat you’d actually forget that you were in the desert. [...]
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Come Fly With Me – Abu Dhabi

05 July 2010 14:07 PM
Before flying to Abu Dhabi, my longest flight had been between Melbourne and Darwin, which is around a four hour flight. So the idea of sitting in ‘cattle class’ for 14 hours was about as appealing as watching hard core porn on my own with cheese graters taped to my hands. But alas last night [...]
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Don’t Judge a Facebook By Its Cover

19 June 2010 14:06 PM
On the 3rd of October 2007 I signed up to Facebook. Some might laugh and think that I was early to the party so I’m a bit of a square, yet others might scoff and think I was late to the party so I was more of a try(angle) hard. When you think about Facebook, it’s [...]
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