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Gustab Wenbus was a fearless alien racer who started the modern age of podracing[1] around a century before the Galactic Civil War[2] by entering himself into an event on the planet Malastare with a super-fast podracer designed by the rogue mechanic Phoebos.[1] Rather than the animal-drawn carts or Hanno Speeders used in most races at the time,[3] Gustab's virtually untested pod[1] combined a repulsorlift pod with flaming jet engines.[3]

The famous first experimental race ensured podracing's reputation as a popular and incredibly dangerous sport,[4] 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[2] Phoebos's design[4] 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.[2]

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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,[3] which was published around December 23, 2015.[5] 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.[6]

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