The lunar robot from Wallace & Gromit's Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989) is visible in the crowd attending the race.
When the ships are lining up at the starting line, the Mantis from Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor video games can be seen.
The ship of the van Reeples is apparently a model built by the Theed Engineering Corporation. The company also made the spacecraft for the royalty and military of Naboo.
Director Magdalena Osinska is of Polish descent, and so always felt she and her mother were a bit out of place in England, with different cultural references for instance, so she felt a strong connection to the story of Anni and Kalina. Charithra Chandran, who voices Anni, felt the same thing, as she is of Indian descent but grew up mostly in England.