Kimi Raikkonen‘s book was the Finnish best-seller of 2018. The 2007 world champion’s official biography, written by Kari Hotakainen and called ‘The Unknown Kimi Raikkonen’, was hailed for its sensational revelations.
Ilta Sanomat newspaper reports that the book sold over 191,000 copies (191,384), making it “by far the best-selling book of 2018”, according to the Finnish Bookstore Federation. The work appeared in August last year.
In this superb and authorised portrait of Räikkönen, Kari Hotakainen gets to reveal the side of the man that few beyond his close family and friends have ever seen. Enigmatic and private, Ferrari’s former world champion driver rarely opens up to outsiders, but he granted Hotakainen exclusive access to his world and to his way of thinking. It ensures that this will be a book that will delight all fans of motorsport, who have long revered the Finn.
Including never-previously-seen photographs from his own collection, The Unknown Kimi Räikkönen takes the reader into the heart of the action at grands prix around the world, behind the scenes as race strategies are planned, and opens up the private side of his life that he normally guards so carefully. With all the cult appeal of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the raw excitement of Formula One and the insight of the best biographies, this is a book every sports fan will want to treasure.
“It’s just something I decided to do,” said the 2019 Sauber driver – “It’s not such a big thing in my view. I lived through it and it just happens to be now it’s in a book,” Kimi Raikkonen added.
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