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(CNN)Watching skiing's superstars hurtle down Kitzbuhel's feared slope at speeds of 95mph made Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone long for the old days in his sport.
Ecclestone, who was replaced as F1 chief executive Monday after Liberty Media's $8 billion takeover, believes his sport should be more like skiing.
"Formula One should be like it used to be -- and it used to be like this," the 85-year-old told CNN at Kitzbuhel, Austria.
"You know, the guys were very on the limit all the time."
Verstappen and Ecclestone were skiing in the annual Kitz Charity Trophy, a foundation set up to support farming families in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
"I haven't done it for five years but started again this year. It's always good fun," the 19-year-old said.
F1's annual edition of musical chairs came to its conclusion last week, with the news Valtteri Bottas would be replacing retired world champion Nico Rosberg at Mercedes.
It also prompted Felipe Massa to come out of retirement to take the vacant seat left by Bottas at Williams and Verstappen is predicting an exciting new season.
"We'll see. It will be close between Mercedes, Ferrari, us, Red Bull," he said.
"We have to wait and see when we go testing and even after testing you're still not sure. Let's see in Melbourne (the first race on the F1 calendar)."
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