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Podracers are one of the four Repulsorcraft classes in Star Wars: Galactic Racer, alongside Landspeeders, Speeder Bikes, and Skim Speeders. Unlike the skim speeder, which Fuse Games created for this game, podracers are long-established Star Wars vehicles, the same kind of jet-propelled racing machine made famous by the Boonta Eve podrace. They return here as the high-speed extreme of the grid.

Speed and feel

Podracers are about raw velocity. They are paired engines pulling a small cockpit, and on a fast track they move at dizzying speeds, well past what the grounded classes reach. Early hands-on coverage described racing them on Tatooine as a near rollercoaster experience because of how the tracks are shaped around their pace. That speed is thrilling, but it leaves little margin for error, which fits the game's wider risk-and-reward design where the boldest line tends to pay the most.

Where you race them

Podracing is tied closely to the Mos Espa Circuit on Tatooine, the famous podrace track, and the game gives a first look at podracers being piloted outside that circuit as well. There are two main ways to get behind one.

Podracer figures

Two named podracers appear in the game. Sebulba, the legendary Dug, is present and notably featured in Arcade mode, where you can pilot recognizable racers; in the campaign he offers support to the protagonist Shade, though his respect has to be earned. Ben Quadinaros also appears as a returning podracer. Both are covered in more detail on the Characters page. Beyond these two, the game references many other pilots, but no further podracer names have been confirmed, so the roster here stays limited to who has actually been shown.

Like every class, podracers can be built and tuned through the parts system. For the shared upgrade stats, the build economy, and how podracers compare to the other three frames, see Repulsorcraft.