Gustab Wenbus

Gustab Wenbus was a fearless alien racer who started the modern age of podracing around a century before the Galactic Civil WarEndless Vigil by entering himself into an event on the planet Malastare with a super-fast podracer designed by the rogue mechanic Phoebos. Rather than the animal-drawn carts or Hanno Speeders used in most races at the time, Gustab's virtually untested pod combined a repulsorlift pod with flaming jet engines.
The famous first experimental race ensured podracing's reputation as a popular and incredibly dangerous sport,Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition and Wenbus, who also worked as a mechanic and race promoter, then developed the sport and set up the first circuits. He standardized the configuration of podracers as being Phoebos's design of a small repulsorlift-driven cockpit connected by flexible control cables to a pair of massive turbine, plasma, or rocket engines that were joined by a pair of plasma energy binders.
==Behind the scenes==
In the current Star Wars canon, Gustab Wenbus was first mentioned in "Podracing on Tatooine," an article in the "Guide to the Galaxy" department of the fifty-first issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series, which was published around December 23, 2015. The character originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where he was first mentioned in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I, which was written by Kristin Lund.Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
==Sources==
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*Star Wars: Complete Locations
*Endless Vigil
==Notes and references==
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