One of the first things I did while setting up the Speed Blog Twitter account was to do a serach of Twitter accounts so I could set up feeds from the various sanctioning bodies that control the series we cover.

I searched for F1, FIA, NASCAR, NHRA, IRL, IndyCar, WRC, ALMS, A1GP and GP2.

And only one series had an official Twitter feed.

Congratulations to the World Rally Championship for being up to date with the latest trends in social media and online communications.

So where are the rest of you?

There are literally millions of users on Twitter and the number is growing exponentially every day. It’s also rapidly becoming one of the  most effective marketing, and messaging channels in this digital age.

Shouldn’t a sport that prides itself as being at the forefront of technology be on the leading edge of communications as well as materials development, aerodynamics et al?

Well we’re back after the off-season and gearing up for the start of the 2009 Racing Season.

Here at The Speed Blog we like to try something new each season, and this year will be no exception. The Speed Blog now has a feed on the popular TWITTER micro-bloging service.

 We will be using the Twiiter feed to post short headlines with event results and news items, while continuing to do more in depth articles and driver profiles here on the main site.

The speed and easy update capabilities of Twitter should allow us to cover more series than we have in the past,  plus provide almost daily updates of whats happening around the motor sports world.

If you don’t have a Twitter account, don’t worry, as we will be setting up an automatic feed to repost the Twitter posts (or “tweets” as they are called) here on the main site.

The Speed Blog Twitter feed can be found at http://twitter.com/thespeedblog