Button on his new F1 life a year on.

Benetton driver, Jenson Button has spoken about what it is like to be one of the rich and famous and he's not afraid to use it to get his own way. Upon meeting girlfriend Louise Griffiths he said: "Hi, it's Jenson. I have to go to Monaco to buy a flat. Want to come?"

The Englishman who now has a seven-figure bank balance at just 21 years old told the Daily Mirror: "The funny thing is you get very well paid as an F1 driver but the more famous you become you never have to buy anything."

"I don't have time to worry about how I'm perceived. It's not important what others think of me. It's what I think of myself that counts and I'm happy with who I am."

He added: "My biggest expenditure (now) is probably going out for meals. I pretty much eat out every night. Before it was just me and my dad and plates of canned spaghetti."

"The thing I like most is an air-hockey table that I bought for ?500 and a talking Winnie the Pooh, which is now my lucky mascot."

Of mixing with the famous and meeting ex-Beatle singer George Harrison he said: "I did not know who George was. I had heard of him, of course, but did not know what he looked like. He was a top bloke. Not a bad singer either!"