Pod-Racers in the game that act as scouts should result an interesting thing.
If you could put different speeds to the scouts-pod-racers, should give some advantages to a civilization and for others it would be a disadvantage for civs like gungans. Here's my idea:
In a scale from 1 to 6 (1 - WORST, 6 - BEST)
Rebel Alliance - 5
Galactic Empire - 4
Wookies - 2
Trade Federation - 3
Royal Naboo - 6
Gungans - 1
I dont think there should be pod racers in GB...scouts are fine