Whilst more research is being conducted when it comes to the coding of the project, we have an update to the building of the thing.

Thanks to the handy work from Clive, we were able to get the Scalextric switch to be powered by a servo motor connected to an arduino.

This can now be plugged into the Scalextric. All that is needed is to hook the Arduino up to Twitter and voila! A Twitter powered Scalextric.