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| Boonta Speeder Race | |
| Type: | Sporting event |
| Category: | Fictional event |
| Continuity: | Star Wars |
| Locations: | Boonta |
| Participants: | Boba Fett; Thall Joben |
| Appearances: | Star Wars: Droids |
The Boonta Speeder Race is a fictional event featured in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. It first appeared in the "A Race to the Finish" episode of Star Wars: Droids in September, 1985.
History[]
The Boonta Speeder Race is a vehicular sporting event held on the planet Boonta. It involves individual pilots and their landspeeders racing in a ten-lap course through various terrain as well as specially designed obstacles.
Thall Joben, Kea Moll and Jord Dusat, along with their droids C-3PO and R2-D2 journeyed to Boonta so that Thall could compete in the race with the White Witch. The journey to Boonta was fraught with peril as they were being pursued by the Fromm Gang and also had to deal with a traitorous droid named BL-17.
The Fromms had made themselves a deal with bounty hunter Boba Fett, who agreed to take out Thall in exchange for clearing a prior debt. Fett entered the race as a late contestant with his own vehicle the Silver Speeder. BL-17 had already attempted to sabotage the White Witch by planting a thermal detonator into it. The scheme backfired however as the detonator exploded too close to Fett's own vessel, destroying it. At this point, Boba Fett turned against his one-time colleagues and captured the Fromms with the intent of delivering them to Jabba the Hutt.
As a result, Thall Joben won the race. One of the spectators, Zebulon Dak, was so impressed that he offered Thall, Joben and Thea jobs as builders and designers at his company, the Zebulon Dak Speeder Corporation.
Participants[]
Vehicles[]
- Silver Speeder
- White Witch
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Boonta Speeder Race was referenced as early as the pilot episode of the series, "The White Witch", but did not make an actual appearance until "A Race to the Finish".
- The concept of the Boonta Speeder Race was later re-tooled as a podracer competition known as the Boonta Eve Classic, which is held on the planet Tatooine. This was first seen in the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.