Star Wars is invading the NASCAR Championship Cup series in Phoenix, and while designing cars to look like X-Wings and TIE Fighters may feel like a random decision, it's actually connected to the franchise on a deep level. While checking out Columbia's X-Wing Pilot winter collection that is coming this December, I learned about a connection George Lucas has to the world of racing that really makes this collaboration all the more special.
George Lucas is a prolific director, known for bringing the world some of the most popular Hollywood franchises out there, and giving Harrison Ford a "wonderful career." With that said there is an alternate universe where people couldn't stream Star Wars with a Disney+ subscription, or see it period. Lucas had different career plans in his youth to be a professional race car driver, and if that had happened he would've never made it to the world of filmmaking.
