Jenson Button could be forgiven for looking outside his Monaco apartment and wondering if he really is the new Formula 1 world champion.

Since the British driver confirmed the title in Brazil a few weeks ago, there has, quite frankly, been little said. It's as if his title has been somehow swept under the carpet by the hierachy that is the FIA.

I'm quite sure that at Brawn HQ, the celebration party went on for weeks - but there seems to be a feeling in the paddock that the praise should be going to Ross Brawn and not Button.

It didn't help Button's cause, however, that he finished the second half of the season consistantly grabbing a point here a point there. But he had done all the hard work in the first half.

Indeed, at one point we were led to believe that Button and his machine would dominate the 2009 season like Michael Schumacher in his glory years at the beginning of the decade.

Stirling Moss was first to attack. Days after Button had won the championship, he didn't even rate the Englishman in his top five drivers of the year. This statement coming from someone who has always stood close and supported his countrymen.

No, Moss thought the fastest driver was the young German Sebastian Vettel. While he may have had a point, the timing was, to say the least, a little off.

The FIA had their own story. Max Mosley, ruling the sport with an iron-clenched fist, stood down only to be replaced by Ferrari-loving Jean Todt.

There does seem to have been no time for Button's celebration. So from an English point of view, is this a damnation for the sport? 

Button was supposed to be all washed up coming into the 2009 season. He was, to put it mildly, a journeyman. But the car, alas the car, was quick. Are the public waking up and smelling the coffee?

Put a rookie or a journeyman in the quickest car and it's a guaranteed championship. Is Joe Bloggs sitting at home overweight supping coke and eating pizza thinking, "Send me out around the world I'll show 'em - at least in a Brawn car"? 

For this, dear people, is the first time I can remember when a non-favourite at the beginning of the season has gone on and claimed the title.

Perhaps if Brawn hadn't existed and Button was paired with, say, Kimi Raikkonen or Lewis Hamilton and had gone on to win it, he would have been praised to the high mountains and back again.

Button will now be looking forward to the faux pas which is the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Because he is favourite for that title. Or is he?