Also a master of quick come backs, as quoted in the back of the book. Indeed he does! A former world champion and a winner of many races he won through determination and talent alone.
And Kimi comes back with "leave me alone, I know what I'm doing". You know, the guy leading the race, when his engineer comes on the radio with instructions about what Kimi should be doing. When the author gets around to Kimi's racing attitude, his actions and feelings about and in the car it sounds more like the Kimi I picture in my mind. The parts about Kimi's passion for speed(more correctly controlling his car at speed) was about the Kimi the great G.P. I don't know, it's more about drinking as the main past time in Finland or that's what I seemed to get out of it.
Chapter 24: Are We Here to Drive or to Talk?. Chapter 22: Pleasing to the Eye, Restful to the Mind. Chapter 11: The Big World and The Small World. 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. It ensures that this will be a book that will delight all fans of motorsport, who have long revered the Finn. 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. 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. Kimi Räikkönen is the Finnish superstar Formula One driver with a reputation for being fast on the track and silent off it – until now! I thought it was fascinating - really, really interesting story that he's got to tell. I've known him for years and I learned an awful lot.' Marc Priestley?
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