Sebulba Sebulba was a male Dug who hailed from the planet of Malastare . A vicious Podracer pilot who flew a massive orange Podracer with a split - x configuration , Sebulba would often bump and smash his way through the competition . A skilled pilot in his own right , he nonetheless opted to install various illegal weapons on his Podracer , such as a flamethrower built into the left engine , to ensure his victories on the track . The crowd favorite of a course known as the Boonta Eve Classic , located on the Outer Rim planet of Tatooine , Sebulba maintained a strong rivalry with one of Podracings few human participants , a young boy named Anakin Skywalker . A short while after the Invasion of Naboo , Sebulba and Skywalker competed in a Boonta race together . Early in the race , Sebulba bested the competitor Mawhonic , before snuffing out more pilots during the second lap . After several more close calls , Sebulba and Skywalker eventually raced into the third lap neck and neck . The Dug nearly dispatched Skywalker near the end of the lap , but the Human regained his ground . The two continued the battle for first place until Sebulba crashed into the desert sands after his cockpit got tangled with Skywalker ' s engines . The wreck paved the way to victory lane for Skywalker , which earned the boy his freedom from slavery . Sebulba survived his wreck and continued to race into the Clone Wars . Biography . The Dug from Malastare . A Dug from the planet of Malastare , Sebulba came from a Malastare locale known as Pixelito , being born some time before the Invasion of Naboo . Crafty , mean - spirited , and something of a bully , Sebulba eventually left Malastare to embellish himself as a professional Podracer pilot . Eventually , he arrived on the Outer Rim planet of Tatooine , where he took the Mos Espa course known as the Boonta Eve Classic by storm , before being eventually crowned as the crowd favorite . Sticking to Tatooine , Sebulba roamed the streets of Mos Espa , spending some of his time at local cantina s . Putting much of his race money into his massive orange Podracer , Sebulba also acquired two Twi ' lek slaves , which served as personal masseuses . Sebulba also found himself a rivalry with a young human boy named Anakin Skywalker , who was a slave owned by a Toydarian merchant named Watto . In addition , Skywalker was a skilled pilot for his age , and was the only Human at the time who participated in Podraces . During a race at some point , Skywalker managed to catch up to Sebulba , and almost passed him . The Dug , while a skilled pilot , chose this point to reveal that he wasn ' t above finding other ways to win races . Revealing a flamethrower embedded into one engine , Sebulba flashed Skywalker ' s jets , causing the Human to wreck . The Boonta Eve Classic of 32 BBY . Prelude to the Boonta . Sometime later , the next iteration of the Boonta Eve Classic was coming through Mos Espa . The day before the event , a starship from the planet of Naboo made its way to Tatooine in need of repairs . Three individuals and a droid embarked from the ship in order to find the needed parts to repair their ship . Upon arriving to Mos Espa , one of the individuals , a tall lanky Gungan named Jar Jar Binks , attempted to take food from a nearby vendor , not realizing that he needed to pay for it . When the vendor ' s owner made the need for payment clear , Binks spat the meal out , inadvertently shooting it off into a nearby outdoor cantina . Binks attempted to leave the scene , but was quickly caught , subdued , and pinned to the ground by Sebulba , who had been the victim of the thrown food . Strangling Binks , Sebulba prepared to pummel the hapless Gungan until Skywalker intervened , informing the Dug that Binks was an outsider with friends whom the Dug may not want to tangle with . Sebulba quickly threatened the Human before departing back to his seat at the bar . Later , another one of the newcomers , a Jedi Master named Qui - Gon Jinn , paid the Boonta ' s entry fee to allow Skywalker to participate in the next race . The next day , the Boonta participants began to assemble at the Mos Espa Grand Arena , with most of the vehicles being parked inside a large hangar . Skywalker ' s pod was pulled up near Sebulba ' s pit , where the Dug gleefully showed off his Twi ' lek women while resting in an old trophy . Here , Watto boisterously declared his plans to bet heavily on Sebulba , off of the basis that the Dug had supposedly never lost a race . Jinn provided a counter - bet , stating that if Skywalker wins the race , Watto could keep all of the race earnings as severance pay to make up for the lost bet money , in exchange for Skywalker ' s freedom . Watto ultimately agrees but doubts Skywalker will win , again preferring Sebulba . After watching the exchange take place , Sebulba began further preparations for the race . With a team of mechanics , Sebulba moved his Podracer to the starting grid , where he was placed on the second outside pole - position , with one pilot on the outside , and the Aleena pilot Ratts Tyerell to the Dug ' s right . Skywalker ' s pod was placed almost directly behind Sebulba ' s and Tyerell ' s pods . Eventually , the Troig race commentators , Fode and Beed , began to introduce the race ' s participants . After introducing the majority of the pilots , Fode and Beed then announced Sebulba , who in response to his name , jumped on top of his cockpit to wave to the adoring crowd . After the crowd died down a little , Jabba the Hutt arrived in a personal viewing box . Before the race could begin , the Dug decided to taunt Skywalker a final time . Finding the boy ' s Podracer , he broke a piece of machinery off of one of Skywalker ' s engines before encountering the Human at his cockpit . Sebulba vaguely implied the sabotage , before Skywalker insulted the Dug . Sebulba responded with an insult of his own before heading back to his own Podracer . Soon after , Jabba officially announced the start of the race , with the pilots bursting out into the track . Two were left behind , however . One was the pilot named Ben Quadinaros , who was having issues with his power coupling s . The other stalled pilot was none other than Skywalker , who was left to furiously attempt to get his pod back up and running . Sebulba takes control . With the race in full swing , the pilots were looking to secure their positions in the pack . During the initial stretch of the race , the Gran pilot Mawhonic , who started on the inside pole position of the front row , found himself neck and neck with Sebulba . After a quick brawl while passing through sweeping mesas and rock formations , Sebulba finished Mawhonic ' s Podracer by keeping him pressed against a rock wall . With that , the first collision of the race had occurred . By this time , Skywalker had managed to escape the starting grid and was quickly overtaking opponents . However , Sebulba maintained the lead throughout the entire first lap . Entering the second lap , the Dug was being shadowed by a Podracer almost as big as his own , one that belonged to a skinny pilot known as Mars Guo . Skywalker managed to make it to the front of the pack and attempted to pass Sebulba in a similar fashion . Sebulba repeated his attempted attack , but the agile Human managed to swerve out of the way , only for one his engine cables to break away from the pod . Sebulba roared away , with Guo closely following behind . Skywalker managed to reattach his cable , though , and after dealing with another engine problem , made his way back up the pack , eventually landing behind Guo . Racing over the final stretch of desert land before the arena , Sebulba finally made a move on the persistent Guo . Using a piece of debris he had acquired somewhere , Sebulba tossed the debris behind him and into Guo ' s left engine intake . Clogging the motors inside , the engine intake stopped working before the entire engine combusted . With Guo crashing into the desert sands , Skywalker was free to move ahead , going neck and neck with Sebulba as they passed the grid line into the third lap . The final lap . Going into the third lap , Sebulba still managed to hold the lead , as narrow as it was . With Skywalker close behind , and now out of surprise tricks , Sebulba resorted to sheer brutality in order to keep Skywalker either behind him or to batter the boy enough to turn his pod into an inferno . Approaching the Laguna Caves , a part of the course where Tyerell had crashed earlier , Sebulba rammed Skywalker off - course , forcing him onto a steep service ramp . Boosting , Skywalker sped up the ramp at an exhilarating speed , only to throw himself up into the sky . The boy was quick to act and adjusted his pod accordingly , and managed to level his Podracer ' s nosedive as he headed back for the ground . Not only did he save himself from an explosive wreck , but his jump off of the ramp put him directly in front of a surprised Sebulba . Skywalker continued to hold the lead until they ran into a series of archways . Suddenly Skywalker ' s left engine bucked and began to give off a stream of dense smoke . Sebulba ' s earlier sabotage was beginning to take effect as Skywalker pushed his pod to its limit . Choking on the smoke , Sebulba realized his chance to take the lead again and moved on ahead . However , by this point the other competitors had caught up to the lead pair . The Xexto Podracer Gasgano quickly took second position , and followed closely behind the Dug leader . In the back , Skywalker managed to resolve his engine difficulties and quickly regained his ground , passing up several other Podracers before gaining a tail on Gasgano . Although Skywalker had issues with passing the Xexto earlier in the race , this time he swerved past Gasgano with little effort and eventually flew parallel with Sebulba as they headed for the final stretch of the course . Angered by the Human ' s persistence , Sebulba resumed a savage beating of Skywalker ' s pod , only to have Skywalker ' s left engine latch onto several cables located on the Dug ' s cockpit . Locked together as they sped down the remainder of the track , Sebulba attempted to tear away to no avail . Finally , Skywalker activated his thrusters , clearing Sebulba ' s pod . In doing so , his engine tore Sebulba ' s cables apart , causing the orange Podracer ' s energy - binders to deactivate , sending the massive vehicle tumbling into the ground . The Dug survived , left cursing in what remained of his cockpit as Skywalker won the Boonta . Later career . Eventually , Sebulba rebuilt his Podracer or bought a new one of the same model , and kept on racing on through an intergalactic conflict known as the Clone Wars . Sometime after the war ' s beginning , posters could be found advertising a showdown between Sebulba and the previously luckless Ben Quadinaros , who were now considered to be the sport ' s greatest rivalry . One such poster was owned by Sebulba ' s old nemesis , Anakin Skywalker . Sebulba also visited the planet Nal Hutta during the Clone Wars , where he was handing out autographs at ten o ' clock am on a Saturday . Personality and traits . Sebulba was an arrogant and aggressive individual . Many of the competitors in the Boonta wished to beat the Dug on a personal level , including Gasgano and Ratts Tyerell . A vicious pilot , he did not let his small stature get in the way of his challenging of larger opponents , such as the Gungan Jar Jar Binks , who was close to twice that of Sebulba ' s size . Although he shared a rivalry with Anakin Skywalker , he didn ' t believe the boy posed any threat to him . When he sabotaged Skywalker ' s Podracer , he simply did so to ensure Skywalker ' s inability to win . On course , Sebulba was a skilled pilot , but even so he would resort to violent combat and illegal weaponry to oust competitors as he saw fit too . Sebulba stood at a total of 1 . 12 meters tall , and had yellow eye s . His skin was primarily shades of purple , with light colors covering most of his neck and body , and darker purples on his face , the top of his head , and his limb s and fingers . The ridge on the top of his head was red . Equipment . Sebulba piloted a large orange Podracer that had engines with a split - X design . Sebulba put most of his earnings into refining his Podracer , not only in performance , but also in secret weapons such as a flamethrower installed in one of the engines . The heavily modified engines were each 7 . 47 meters in length , while his orange cockpit was 3 . 96 meters in length . A sturdy vehicle , it could survive the punishment that Sebulba would grant it when ramming into opponents . When racing , Sebulba wore padded armor with a helmet that displayed goggles with large round lenses that would protect his eyes . His gear was gray in color . Skills and abilities . When he came to Tatooine , Sebulba took the settlement of Mos Espa by storm , eventually becoming the reigning Podracing champion there . A skilled pilot , he was regarded as the reigning Boonta champion , even though he was not the course ' s sole victor prior to the Boonta . Despite this , he was not content with his own abilities , and on occasion he had resorted to illegal weapons to destroy the competition . If it wasn ' t an opportune time to use a weapon , he would simply smash his adversaries into a flaming wreck . Sebulba was fairly strong as well , being able to bring a full grown Gungan to the ground , albeit a fairly clumsy one . Behind the scenes . Sebulba first appeared in the 1999 novel , " " , which was released as a tie - in for the later released , which Sebulba was explicitly created for . Concept art for the character was created by Terryl Whitlatch , and some pieces of art can be traced back as far as 1996 . A sculpture was created by the Lucasfilm Ltd . art department based on the drawings , and the character was represented in the film as a computer - generated character , whose final form differed noticeably from the earlier art and sculpture . The most obvious difference was the lack of any extruding , sharp teeth , a feature prominent in the art . A puppet based off of the maquette also existed , which was created by the art department for use in an animatic of the Podrace seen in the film . Sebulba ' s backstory was fleshed out in a number of stories and video game s , although much of that information is now considered to be part of the Star Wars Legends continuity , and no longer a part of official canon . As such , his only other canonical appearances are in two episodes of " " , where he appears on posters in the episodes " Friends and Enemies " and " The Rise of Clovis " . In the film , Sebulba ' s voice was provided by actor Lewis MacLeod , who would later reprise the role in most of the character ' s later video game appearances .