If you appreciate 4-wheel racing as well as 2, check out the 12 Hours of Sebring happening this weekend.

At the moment, in fact, qualifying is streaming live via the IMSA.com website.

Not only can you tune in for free to a live HD broadcast, but just below the video feed is Live Timing, a track map, an Event Schedule, and race results.

Considering what other racing series use the Internet for, the IMSA.com offering is a fantastic example of some folks who well and truly get it. They are making it as easy as possible for exisitng fans to follow and enjoy the IMSA product, and also for new fans to see what is going on in this series.

Looking right now at a wide shot of the huge crowd in attendance, I’m thinking how useful this must be for those folks watching the cars go by from their campers and grandstand seats. Whether they are seated close to a large screen TV or not, they can have timing and scoring and a video feed on their phones to follow the story of each session.

We’re seeing at IMSA.com the future of motor sports coverage. This kind of Internet compliment should be available for every major racing series. Well done, IMSA.

The image above is actually from the 2007 American Le Mans Series at Laguna Seca. ALMS is the antecedent of modern American endurance car racing, and the Petit Le Mans event was first created as part of the ALMS way back in 1999.

When I took this picture in 2007, I had no idea I would see the driver, Johannes Van Overbeek, as we dropped our kids off at the same elementary school a few years later! Small world.. Johannes will be racing for the Patron ESM team in the World Endurance Championship for 2015.