Thanks for suggesting this admin. I think this would be a great race to watch but I would probably put my money on The Blue Falcon as it’s faster, more durable, can boost and is probably easier to drive. I also think that Captain Falcon would probably be a bit better driver than Anakin as he is more experianced and practices more, although Anakin does have the force and is very talented at podracing so it would still be very close.

Anakin’s Podracer has a max speed of 947 km/h.

Unassisted by boost, the Blue Falcon can reach speeds of approximately 1000 km/h.

where would the match take place

blue falcon has this.better top speed better durability and perhaps better driver.F-zero racing courses are in some cases more extreme then the course anakin raced on and falcon is the master of those courses since afterall hes the champ.

How do you know the Blue Falcon has better durability? Almost no universes have any materials stronger than what Star Wars can offer (ALMOST being the key word there)

Anything that can tank a crash at 1000km/h get’s my vote.

Blue Falcon. Better materials, speed, and pilot.

“all valid, but wouldn’t Anakin’s precog make up for this, i.e. normally you slow down around corners and such, but he’d already know….uh….something about what’s ahead, and adjust before hand, gaining those vital miliseconds…”

That would also depend on the course they’re racing on.

I’m not sure if it’s Tatooine or Mute City or what have you.

Precog…its a wonderful thing ey

This is also filed under mecha, and all mecha battles are contests between the machines themselves and NOT the Pilots. Factpile rules. It’s not necessarily who would win in a race, Anakin Skywalker or Captain Falcon, it’s which machine would you rather be in for a race, Anakin’s Home Built Poderacer or Captain Falcon’s marvel of technology, the Blue Falcon.

Given that, I’d take the Blue Falcon anyday.

me and epic thought of this, and he may have suggested this, but what if mc tried to hijack the blue falcon?

How tight can the Blue Falcon turn? I don’t recall it being exactly manuverable in F-Zero, then again it wasn’t up to the 1000 km/h mark yet either. I know it could pull fairly tight turns, but the pod is capable of pulling 90 degree turns at high speed, preforming rampless barrel rolls, and of course tilting on its side.

Durability goes to the Blue Facon unquestionably. Pods break up at the slightest error and sometimes even before then. They are unrealiable machines, which is why they have internal compensating systems, redundant backups, and power trasfer abilities. F-Zero racers use G-Diffusers, one of the most powerful gravity altering parts in all of Nintendodom. After watching a few vids of F-Zero GX, I’m not too surprised to see the racers flying as much as they are driving; they use the same tech as StarFox’s Arwing space superiority fighters after all.

Do A Barrel Roll!

Pilots?Falcon leaps out of his cockpit and is treated with a nice Falcon Punch:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw

Podracers were meant to be as chaotic and inherently unstable as possible, deliberately eschewing even a repulsorlift mounted ejection seat to offer as little protection to the pilot in exchange for sheer thrills and spills alone.

In the novelization they even mention that most of the pilots compete off the track to construct the most bizarre and haphazard racers physically possible; By’t Distombe even mentions quite casually to the young Anakin that under any circumstance in which the pod is displaced, the backwash from his engines would boil any organism alive.

These vehicles are far from safe, stable or reliable.

When has been being cooked alive by your own engine an advantage in vehicular design? The primary goal of engineers everywhere is to make a device or operating system efficient, utilitarian and SAFE.

A Fighter Jet capable of outracing every other competitor by an order of magnitude would be useless in a war if the average survival rate of the pilot was only 50%, or required five times as much maintenance and resources as a vastly cheaper model (I call this the principle of Nazi engineering), likewise a Podracer is specifically designed to be chaotic, haphazard, lethal to handle, have a far lower survival rate (only a handful of pilots survived the race in TPM) and explode brilliantly on impact. It’s a fusion powered rocket chariot for crying out loud.

They have as a much utilitarian functionality and as much thought put into their engineering as the USS Enterprise; flashy, pointlessly aesthetics, dangerous to handle and they both explode brilliantly at the slightest tap, thus they are used in illegal blood sports and are therefore as roadworthy as monster trucks.

Sam, haven’t you seen the first movie? There are no nuclear explosions when the pods break.

My bad, i thought that said fission…damn, and here i was,all happy that all those chemistry classes last year were about to pay off…

@L-W

would it be more practical to power a vehicle with fission or fusion, if radiation can be eliminated, and containment was “cheap”. I’m asking because apparently, that weasel Master Chief has a fission reactor in his backpack…the nerve of some people…

“Other than that, fusion produces less waste, is generally safer, has too many chemically responsive redundancies to achieve supercriticality and matter such as Deuterium can be stored as inert compounds in larger quantities at greater densities.
It just makes sense.”

Sorry if I sound ignorant, because I probably am on this matter. But if fussion is so much better than fission, why do we still use fission-type reactors? Maybe I am thinking of something else, but just wondering why they have not used that technology yet? Is it cost or just we don’t have technology yet? Thanks if you end my ignorance mate, and have a pleasant day.

- the pondering fool

“By modern standards, the technology to generate, supply and maintain a fusion energy plant is simply too far off from becoming a practical reality for at least a century. In fact our modern fusion reactors require more energy to initiate the fusion of hydrogen molecules than the subsequent reaction releases, making them rather pointless until we devise a sure fire method of safely compressing mass to star like densities.”

First, thanks for answering my question. Second, tis unfortunate that we have not reach that level of efficiency yet……guess old fission will have to do….

- the pondering fool

Podracers have a tendancy to fall apart pretty easily.

This really isn’t a legitimate vehicle comparison anyway. One is a utilitarian combat vehicle intended to ensure the survival of the pilot, the other is an explosive death sport rocket powered open top chariot intended to be as unstable as possible.

This is like comparing an F-22 to the annual Bird Man contestants.

Me too, every year I hold my breath to see an aspiring engineer spit at gravity for even a few seconds.

The F-Zero machines are designed for racing, if they were meant for combat then they would be armed. However they are good enough to be used in dangerous situations as Captain Falcon uses his when he’s bounty hunting.

Also the F-Zero races are designed to be dangerous too(although the machines are more far more durable then podracers), not only are the courses often very difficult but they can even have built-in obstacles including explosive mines!

I definetly agree with you that the F-Zero machines are far superior to pod-racers I’ve thought that from the start, I was just stating that both sports are dangerous, and that F-Zero machines are for racing not combat.

It was still an interesting match, comparing two very different universes “gladiator” style racing events.

It’s just in F-Zero we have good vehicles on crazy tracks

and in Star Wars we have bad vehicles on crazy tracks.

Although I am surprised to find the top speeds so close.

“Exactly, would you want to be sat in an unarmoured open topped car being towed at near mach 1 speeds behind two humongous fusion powered engines with only a small seat belt for protection?

No wonder Anakin turned to the dark side so quickly, he must have been clinically insane in the first place.”

LOL that’s what I’ve often thought about podracing, no wonder the Empire banned it. Whereas I might actually have a go at some of the easier F-Zero courses.

@Guest your wrong, I’ve played F-ZERO GX and the highest speed it can reach without boosts is around 1200 km/h, so the Blue Falcon holds the advantage, and still I’m relatively sure the Blue Falcon would be much more endurable.