Jarrett knows his future, world will learn Thursday

Dale Jarrett will race in 2008, but we'll have to wait until Thursday to find out where, when and how much. After making his qualifying attempt Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway, Jarrett said he would announce his future plans at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

"Have I made my decision? Yes," Jarrett said. "I'm going to race some next year. That's all I'll say."

"It was my decision," he said. "I went to them because obviously part of my job is to do what's best for Michael Waltrip Racing and my sponsor. So I went to them and said, 'Look, I've been thinking about this. Here are some different scenarios. Let's talk about them.' So we did that for about eight weeks."

"The opportunity is there, but that didn't weigh on my decision whatsoever," Jarrett said. "That opportunity, I was told, was going to be there, just whenever I decided to not drive the racecar any more. I didn't let that factor in."

"When we were in Daytona, Terry and I were just talking about it and he said, 'Look, make sure you drive as long as you want to and as long as you can, because once you get out, nobody's ever really gone back and done anything that was very good,'" Jarrett said.

"He said, 'Just make sure you satisfy yourself.' That's who you have to please. Whenever you decide to make that decision, make sure of that. I took that into consideration. I felt like that was very good advice."