A round up of the latest Motorsports tweets posted at http://twitter.com/thspeedblog

 February 11th

• [NHRA] Winternationals Pro Stock Cars – Jason Line (6.567s/211.63mph) beats Mike Edwards (6.575s/210.01mph)
• [NHRA] Winternationals Nitro Funny Cars – Ron Capps (4.154s/296.96mph) beats Jim Head (no time)
•  [NHRA] Winternationals Nitro Top Fuel – Doug Kalitta (3.822s/308.57mph) beats Antron Brown (3.847s/307.16mph)

February 12th

• [NASCAR] Jeff Gordon (#24) wins first Gatorade Duel qualifying race for Daytona 500
• [NASCAR] Kyle Busch (#18) wins second Gatorade Duel qualifying race for Daytona 500

February 13th

• [WRC] Sebastian Loeb (Citroen) leads Rally Norway, 2 mins 6 secs ahead of Mikko Hirvonen (Ford), at the end of Day 1.

February 14th

• [WRC] Seabastian Loeb leads Rally Norway by 25s at end of Day Two.

February 15th

• [WRC] Sebastian Loeb (Citroen) wins Rally Norway
• [NASCAR] Tony Stewart wins Nationwide race @ Daytona.
• [NASCAR] Matt Kenseth (#17) declared winner of rain shortened Daytona 500.

We were delighted that The Speed Blog’s associated Twitter account http://twitter.com/thespeedblog was recently named by RaceDrive TV as one of the 99 Motorsports Twitter Accounts To Follow.

Race Drive listed all the accounts in a couple of videos which you can find below:

A quick roundup of posts from The Speed Blog twitter feed over the past week.

February 1st

[WRC] Sebastian Loeb (Citroen) wins Rally Ireland 1 min 27.9 secs ahead of team mate Dani Sordo. Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) is third.

February 2nd

[IRL] Haymarket Publishing announces that IndyCar magazine is to cease publication “with immediate effect.”

February 4th

[IRL] Robin Miller is reporting that Robert Doornbos will be joining N/H/L alongside Graham Rahal and other new signing … Milka Duno (!!!)

[NASCAR] Jeremy Mayfield forms Mayfield Motorsports and will run #41 Toyota in Sprint Cup.

[F1] An American team in F1? Looks like plans are underway for that to happen in 2010. Project is called USF1 and will be based in NC.

February 6th

[F1] Scuderia Toro Rosso have confirmed that Sebastien Bourdais will return to the team for a second season in 2009.

February 8th

[NASCAR] Kevin Harvick (#29) last lap dash grabs victory at Bud Shootout.

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