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[Star Wars] It is widely known that humans don't have the reflexes or skill to pilot podracers in their dangerous and often combative races. So why are humans selected as combat pilots?

I understand the whole Empire=racists thing, but the Old Republic was made up of all kinds of species and didn't have that sentiment going into the Clone Wars. There are apparently so many species that are better at piloting podracers that a human driver is laughable. The only one that had any success had help from the Force. The other podracing species had much better reflexes and ability to maneuver in the 3D environment of the race course than even peak humans.

What made anyone think that humans would be good pilots for the Republic? And why were so few of the Rebellion's pilots (esp. X-wing pilots) made up of these species with superior attributes?
gpt
First of all, podracing is guttersport enjoyed by outlaws and failures out on shitball worlds in the extreme outer rim. That the kind of scum that engages in that "sport" would know anything about comparative xenophysiology as it concerns kinesiology is laughable.

The most reasonable explanation for why humans don't participate in those races is because it hasn't been worth any human's time and money. Any human who loves the thrill of fast machines would probably take up a hobby in *ships*, which have use out in the real world, unlike those jumped-up landspeeder death-pods.

As for the so-called "Rebellion," most of them are fringe Alderaanian agitators, and Alderaan isn't exactly a paradise of diversity.

Heh. Even less so, now.