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    "When the storm is over, you can see my racer. I'm building a podracer!"
    ―Anakin Skywalker[2]

    Podracers were repulsorcraft used as racing vehicles.

    Description

    Podracers were repulsorcraft that were built as racing vehicles. Capable of achieving speeds over 700 kilometers per hour, podracers were used in the similarly named sport of podracing.[1] The P-100 pick-up droid was designed to retrieve valuable components from podracers that had crashed and then bring these pieces to the storage hold of a P-100 Salvage Droid.[3] Podracers came in various shapes and sizes, although the general construction of a podracer was a one-man cockpit towed by two engines which were attached to the cockpit via two cables.[2]

    History

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    Anakin Skywalker's podracer

    Podracers piloted by professional podracers, typically diminutive beings with fast reflexes, competed in the Boonta Eve Classic, a high-stakes three-round competition along the winding, dangerous Mos Espa podrace circuit hosted by Jabba the Hutt. The Boonta Eve Classic of 32 BBY was unusually won by a human boy—Anakin Skywalker—who was rewarded for his intuition with the guidance of his strong connection to the Force and thus won his freedom from Watto to join Qui-Gon Jinn and the Jedi Order. Ben Quadinaros' podracer had four engines connected to the cockpit which malfunctioned at the start of the race. Another, more unusual podracer was employed by Neva Kee, which was one solid unit, with the cockpit placed in front of the engines. Podracers could also be modified at the owner's whim. The crafty Dug pilot Sebulba, a veteran of the Mos Espa racecourse, had installed an illegal flamethrower on his racer to sabotage other podracers. Anakin Skywalker himself flew a heavily modified podracer that he had partially built from the ground up. Other podracers included the Ord Pedrovia, which was piloted by Gasgano, and the Vulptereen 327, which was piloted by Dud Bolt. The pilot Clegg Holdfast flew a red KT9 Wasp,[2] a podracer which was manufactured by the company Keizar-Volvec.[4]

    By the fall of the Galactic Empire, podracing had lost much popularity and was outlawed by the New Republic.[5] The engines were often redesigned for other uses, such as Cobb Vanth's speeder, which was constructed using the engine of a podracer.[6] Some engines were even used to cook meat.[7] Nevertheless, the podracer Sebulba was involved in the Galactic League, an illicit circuit of various types of repulsorcrafts.[8]

    Behind the scenes

    Sounds recorded for the podracers in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace were later used for the speeders on Jakku in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.[9]

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    Notes and references

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 StarWars-DatabankII  Boonta Eve Classic Podracer Pilots in the Databank (backup link)
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
    3. ↑ Star Wars: Complete Locations
    4. ↑ Endless Vigil
    5. ↑ Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire
    6. ↑ The-Mandalorian-logo Star Wars: The Mandalorian — "Chapter 9: The Marshal"
    7. ↑ The-Mandalorian-logo Star Wars: The Mandalorian — "Chapter 10: The Passenger"
    8. ↑ StarWars  We're Going Back to Jakku in the Trailer for Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Exclusive Interview on StarWars.com (backup link)
    9. ↑ The Force Awakens' sound designer Matthew Wood on 'Star Wars' Easter eggs TheDailyDot (2016-02-04). Retrieved on May 30, 2016. "When we did The Phantom Menace, I remember spending months and months recording vehicles for the podrace. And now that sound of all the vehicles we recorded for the podrace, some of those went into the speeder sounds on Jakku."

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