Famed F1 driver Jenson Button is in Singapore getting ready for the weekend’s Formula One night race, but he encountered something there that sent him of his tracks.
The McLaren driver was at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore when he spotted a herd of Pokémon hunters on the move at a shopping mall.
In an Instagram post which has been viewed by more than 80,000 times, he added the video with the caption “When Pokemon takes over the World. #veryweird#notforme”.
A video posted by Jenson Button (@jensonbutton_22) on
Button said that F1’s new owners should try to make the sport as interesting as Pokemon Go. He believes that young people would chose F1 over Pokeman if it was sold to them the properly.
“Have you ever seen the films of the future, how people are going to be – this was last night in the shopping mall. All these people walking one way, you know why? Pokemon. There must have been 2,000 people all walking to one spot, through the shopping mall, across the road because there’s a Pokemon there to grab…
“I don’t even know what you do with them. Do you win money? Or presents? Chocolate? You’d do it for chocolate wouldn’t you….. But come on. Is Formula One not more interesting than that? It should be, I think it is! If they can get that many people interested at trying to flick something at a yellow dot which isn’t really there — you don’t really touch it — I think we can make Formula One better than it is, ” he said to ESPN.
