Other news and results from over the weekend.

NASCAR.

• Mark Martin announces his move to the MB2 team for a partial cup schedule in 2007.
• Juan Pablo Montoya impresses on his stock car debut in Friday’s ARCA race finishing third.
• Champ Car star A.J. Allemendinger fiinishes fifth in the Craftsman truck race won by Mark Martin.

Formula One

• It appears that GP2 star Lewis Hamilton will be running another test session for McLaren ahead of a possible race debut at the upcoming Brazilian GP.

A1-GP

• A1 Team Malaysia have jumped up to third in the A1GP standings after Alex Yoong secured the first double victory of the 2006/07 season at Brno.

The popular perennial Formula One under-dog, Minardi, will be making a return at several 2007 Grand Prix weekends, but not as prt of the F1 grid. Instead Minardi will now be part of the exciting GP2 series after a merger with the Piquet Sports team.

The Piquet Sports team was set up with the single goal of getting Nelson Piquet Jr. into an F1 seat, a goal it has now acheived, but along the way built a strong GP2 operation. The merger with Minardi will allow that operation to continue and will be combined with Minardi’s experience in a variety of formulas.

A round -up of some of the stories from the last week that caught my eye but didn’t get a full post.

FORMULA ONE

• After the takeover by the Spyker group it seems that former Midland Sporting Director and GP winner Johnny Herbert no longer has a place on the team. 
• Indian GP driver Narain Karthikeyan will stay at Williams in the test driver role for 2007.

NASCAR

• Ex F1 star Juan Pablo Montoya will make his stock car debut in an ARCA race at Talledega on October 6th.

CHAMP CAR

• It seems that a couple of European races are being lined up to fill the September gap in the previously announced 2007 schedule.

IRL

• The opening race of the 2007 Indy Car season at Homestead will be an evening event run under the lights.

GP2

• A series of four “winter” test sessions has been scheduled for the GP2 runners before the start of the 2007 season.

A1-GP

• A total of 23 teams and 42 drivers have been announced for the upcoming second season of the “World Cup Of Motor Sports.”  
• Dutch star Jos Verstappen pulls out of his national team at their home event in an apparent dispute over appearence money.