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= Company = Racetech Manufacturing (NZ) Limited is an automotive seat manufacturer, based in Wellington, New Zealand. The company designs and hand-builds fixed-back ('bucket') seats for mainly motorsport applications. Racetech also imports and distributes a range of safety-related motorsport accessories, some of which bear the Racetech brand.

= History = Racetech was founded in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1992. Current Managing Director and former NZ F2 rally champion, David Black, purchased the company in 1998. Racetech was then relocated to Petone, Wellington where it remains. The operation has since grown in size and moved premises on two further occasions.

= Procucts = Notable Racetech products include the 119 and 129 range of seats. The RT9129WTHR was only the second seat model to be awarded Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) 8862-2009 homologation, an advanced seat safety standard developed in 2009. This range of seats display industry first innovations such as the patented back mount system first seen in 2001 and a lower-back air ducting intake to aid driver cooling.

As of 2014, the Racetech 129 series seats are used widely by drivers in Australian V8 Supercars.