The untold story of Kimi Raikkonen

When Kimi Raikkonen was a child, his parents became increasingly concerned about him.

At the age of three he was mute - still yet to utter a single word. When they took him to see a doctor, nothing was found to be wrong, and, indeed, his other responses were reassuringly quick: his legs worked far faster than his tongue and soon this flaxen-haired boy had broken loose.

His lack of speech and peculiar tone - the result of accidentally falling off his bike aged five and damaging a vocal chord through impact with the handlebar - is the first of many revelations in an extraordinary new biography of the Iceman.