Tillet Racing Seats join Bennett Racing: 24th November 2010

Bennett Racing are delighted to announce the addition of our latest sponsor, Tillett Racing Seats. Many will know Tillett from there Karting background, but they are branching out into other motorsport areas and felt there was no better way than with Bennett Racing. They make some very striking carbon fibre seats, ideally when trying to save some pounds and also look fantastic.

Steve Tillett started in karting in 1978. The arrival of new sticky tyres gave him and others many problems with bruised ribs, caused mainly by badly fitting seats.

A vintage and veteran car upholsterer by trade, Steve's father Alec, covered the first ever "Tillett Seat" by sticking a fabric used in motor vehicle floor mats as a lining on to the seat. It seemed to work really well, not only holding the driver secure but it stopped the continual sliding around. By taking the hard edge off the hard fibreglass shell, it made the karts aggressive cornering speeds less damaging to the body.

Tillett Racing Seats has now grown from a one man operation in a garage, to a company comprising of five factory units totalling 14,000 square feet with a current workforce of 20.

Developing the technology to produce carbon composite kart seats accurately and efficiently has opened doors to other industries. Tillett Ltd. is now producing many carbon parts and seats for Caterham cars and now has a new range of lightweight carbon fibre car seats named from B1 to B6.

Tillett seats are always open to other uses for the seats and they have been used in many different applications over the years, from racing power boats, autograss racing, auto gyros, cross Atlantic rowing boats, horse carts, microlights, paraplegic sailing, ski bobs, rocking horses and were even used in James Bond's ice racer on Die Another Day, the tank in Goldeneye and the attack sub in the Gi Joe film.

The Tillett Car seat range started life with the W1 seat, it was made for a small company that prepared Westfields after it could not find a seat narrow enough in the market place. When Caterham were looking for a new race seat they inquired to Tillett Racing Seats and after making a couple of prototypes based on the W1 the new product was released at the 1999 Motor Show. Since then the Tillett Caterham seat has been a great success and is used in cars like the R500 as standard.

New Tillett car based seat models are now appearing regularly to satisfy the demands of all sorts of specialised machinery.

Tillett Racing Seats are famous in the kart racing world for their high quality composite seats. The composite technology developed to make these has now been transferred to a car seat range, using all the principles used to gain every 100th of a second a lap.

This has brought about an innovative set of light and rigid seats from B1 to B6, that require no covering or padding to remain comfortable.

Tillett Racing Seats
3 Castleacres Ind Park
Castle Road
Sittingbourne
Kent
England ME10 3RZ

Tel: +44 (0)1795 420 312
Fax: +44 (0)1795 478 821

e-mail: info@tillett.co.uk