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Ecclestone misses the ‘old' Sebastian Vettel

Nov.11 Bernie Ecclestone says he misses the ‘old' version of Sebastian Vettel. Indeed, in the German driver's formative years in Formula 1, he was famously close to the now-former F1 supremo. 'He has changed,' the 92-year-old told RTL. 'When I first met him, he was a little boy. Very shy and very polite,' Ecclestone said. 'Now he's grown into a real man who knows how to take care of himself, knows what he wants to do and who goes on and does it. 'So it's a different Sebastian.' Ecclestone, however, says that the extent of 35-year-old Vettel's transformation came as a surprise. 'I don't know what made him change his direction and attitude,' he said. 'Before, he always had an opinion...
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