The music is perfect. The new emphasis on Anakin's point of view, the incorporation of edited footage and the resequencing of the race -- it's just awesome.
Finally I was totally in awe of the whole "podrace" concept, which when you get down to it, is pretty awesome. Definitely a wonderful surprise to find something so cool in this prequel. There wasn't anything to compare to it in AOTC (except, maybe, super-jedi Yoda? Nah).