Mos Espa Grand Arena/Legends

The Mos Espa Grand Arena on Tatooine was located just outside the city of Mos Espa on its Northern Dune Sea side. It was the home to one of the most famous Podracing tracks in the Outer Rim Territories. Once a year hopeful contenders made their way to the enormous stadium to participate in the Boonta Eve Classic, which was hosted by the Hutts to commemorate the Boonta Eve holiday and was among the most illustrious of all podraces. It is presumed that other races took place here throughout the season as well.

The arena was open-air and open-ended being built into a natural canyon ampitheatre. It consisted of a curving track running between a massive seating structure for more than 100,000 race fans, and an observation platform for race officials built into a rockface. Only a very small portion of the circuit was actually located in the arena with the rest extending for miles in a circuit around a broad, flat-topped mountain known as Ben's Mesa. Significantly though, the start/finish line was located within the arena.

Before being towed out onto the start grid, the pods themselves were housed and maintained in a large hangar located on the arena grounds.

After podracing was illegalized, the arena was transformed into a swoop bike arena, maintained by a Kuati woman named Ulda.

Appearances

 * Urchins
 * Podracing Tales
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Episode I: Queen Amidala
 * Episode I: Qui-Gon Jinn
 * Star Wars: Episode I Racer
 * Star Wars: Racer Revenge
 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Sand Blasted
 * Tatooine Ghost