Originally produced as a short movie titled Molly, Star-Racer, a television series was developed in cooperation with Jetix Europe, with animation production by Hal Film Maker and Pumpkin 3D, a large portion of which was done in Tokyo, Japan.

When Don doesn't recognise her due to their long absence from each other, Eva takes on the name of "Molly" to hide her identity and becomes his mechanic.

In short, he wanted to stress the emotional side of his characters and story, something that he felt had totally disappeared from Western animation productions.

The World Productions", which released in 2001 a short movie entitled Molly, Star-Racer, produced in part by Sparx Animation Studios and set to a Y&Co.

[6] Leaked on the internet, it quickly became extremely popular among animation fans, generating hundreds of thousands of downloads on various sites - a rarity at the time.

In spite of the success of the trailer, the search for financing for the series was a long process since Yeatman-Eiffel had a clear vision of where he wanted to take the show - more realistic and more emotional than the original trailer - and refused to negotiate with a party that would have tried to bend or change the artistic choices at a later stage (including, as was offered to him by an important North American production company to change the main character into a boy).

Savin Yeatman-Eiffel succeeded in the end, involving major financial partners like Disney and Bandai without surrendering his control of the artistic elements.

The World's first TV series, the company has previously existed as a maker of various short films (including the aforementioned Molly, Star-Racer).

[2][8] The English version was recorded by Airwaves Sound Design in Vancouver, Canada - the voice director for the series is Michael Donovan.

The lyrics of the French version, titled "Envole-toi vers l'infini", were written by Oban creator Savin Yeatman-Eiffel.

[15] The full version of "Waratteta" was included on Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts's album, "Space Bio Charge", released on May 27, 2009.

[3] The campaign ran between February 1 and March 8, 2022, meeting its initial target of €30,000 within an hour and raising a total of €377,056 (approximatively 410,000 US dollars).

Two volumes of French-language DVDs have been released by WildSide Vidéo long with a limited edition full series box set.

[21] During a series of Ōban Star-Racers related events at the Japan Tours Festival at the end of February 2017, creator Savin Yeatman-Eiffel indicated he was working on a potential sequel and spin-off with co-director Thomas Romain.

[22] During Oban's 15th Anniversary Event was held in Paris on December 4, 2021[3] Savin Yeatman-Eiffel presented for the first time the stories and designs of the sequels currently in development and discussed them with the audience.