Kyle Busch continued his dominance with a flawless qualifying effort last night to capture the pole for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race in Concord, N.C.

Busch, the Sprint Cup points leader with three wins and seven top-10 finishes in 11 races, was the final car to hit the track. In a unique format that called for three laps and a four-tire pit stop, Busch was the fastest in and out of pit road and finished in 2 minutes, 1.956 seconds.

Busch was more than a half-second faster than Jeff Gordon, who will start on the outside of the front row for the non-points race tonight.

"Being able to go out last definitely helped out," Busch said of the cooler conditions as darkness fell on Lowe's Motor Speedway. "It was a fast race car, that's for sure."

Kurt Busch, Kyle's older brother, qualified third, followed by Martin Truex Jr., Greg Biffle and Jamie McMurray.

Dale Jarrett insists he's not second-guessing his decision to retire. It won't make his final race tonight any easier.

"It's difficult knowing that when I get out of the car that's the last time I'll ever compete at this level," Jarrett said.

The All-Star race will mark the end of a 24-year career for Jarrett, 51, at NASCAR's highest level. He has run 668 points races, winning 32 times, including three Daytona 500s. Jarrett won the 1999 Cup championship.

"I was mad on Sunday night because I had to wait four more days to get back in the race car," Jarrett recalled. "That's how good it was."

He's working as an analyst for ESPN. An avid golfer, he'll hit the links even more, and he'll have more time to spend with his four kids. But Jarrett will sure miss the competition.

"I can go to the golf course and have great matches, but nothing will ever match the kind of excitement that you get from driving a race car and being able to compete at this level," Jarrett said.

Still, Jarrett insists he won't come back. Other drivers, such as Bill Elliott, Mark Martin and Terry Labonte, have agreed to run partial schedules. Jarrett acknowledged he already has fielded calls from other teams interested in hiring him for the start of next season.

"I hate to use the word never, but I have no plans whatsoever of getting back in the car," Jarrett said. "I can't even come up with a scenario."

Car owner Richard Childress was one of eight people inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame this week. Childress' Welcome, N.C.-based team won six Cup titles with Dale Earnhardt from 1986-94. He currently fields three Sprint Cup teams with drivers Clint Bowyer, Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton.

The rest of the 2008 class included North Carolina men's basketball coach Roy Williams; former Duke athletic director Tom Butters; former Duke quarterback Leo Hart; longtime promoter Bill Hensley; former North Carolina and NFL offensive linemen Ken Huff; former Guilford College men's golf and basketball coach Jack Jensen; and former Harlem Globetrotter Curly Neal.