Formula One star Jenson Button is confused by all the Pokémon zombies in Singapore

"#Veryweird #notforme."
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Victoria Ho
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Racing superstar Jenson Button is in Singapore for this weekend's Formula One night race, but he's encountered something that stopped him in his tracks.

The Englishman was at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore when he spotted a migratory horde of Pokémon hunters flowing down the corridor of the shopping mall.

In an Instagram post, which has been watched nearly 80,000 times in the past day since it was posted, he adds in his caption the hashtags #veryweird and #notforme.


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Fellow F1 star, the German driver Nico Rosberg has been spending time out and about on the streets of Singapore, where he's less likely to encounter mass Pokémon hunting.

On Thursday night, he took this picture with street vendors serving grilled satay.

The Singapore Grand Prix kicks off on Friday evening. It's the first street circuit in Asia for the F1, and was the first night-time race for the high-end motor sport.

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Victoria Ho

Victoria Ho is Mashable's Asia Editor, based in Singapore. She previously reported on news and tech at The Business Times, TechCrunch and ZDNet. When she isn't writing, she's making music with her band

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