IRL courts title sponsor

UPDATE Georgia-Pacific Corp. (GP) is expected to announce later today a multi-year associate sponsorship deal with NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Jeff Gordon and his Hendrick Motorsports team. Terms of the deal were not released, but industry insiders peg a deal like this in the low to mid-seven figures per year. So much for that IRL title sponsorship. 10/26/05 Georgia Pacific is leaving Kyle Petty's NASCAR team and talking with the IRL about a possible title sponsorship. SPEEDTV.com [Editor's Note: To the IRL? Think again. Hearing that Georgia Pacific, current sponsor for #45 Kyle Petty, will go to Hendrick Motorsports in some capacity. Could be as a full associate and part-time primary one or more of the Hendrick teams. Petty had announced midseason Georgia Pacific would not be back. Georgia Pacific is scheduled to make an announcement of some sort at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Friday when the NASCAR Cup teams are getting ready to race this weekend….so what does that tell you about the IRL or NASCAR.]