In the huge Podracer Hangar at Mos Espa Grand Arena Podracers are tuned to their best by busy pit crews until the last minute before the race. Heavy-duty overhead cranes help with maintenance and repair. Race officials attempt to certify the vehicles, but the crews use every tactic imaginable to distract, threaten, or bribe them.

The pit crews rebuild the battered machines and prepare them for the next big race. Assisted by frantic pit droids and pestered by race officials citing violations. Podracers crews must also put up with the egos of the racers themselves. In spite of it all, the crews take great satisfaction in knowing that they make all the action possible.