By: Mark Glendenning
When a driver is entering the final days of a full-time career that spanned nearly two decades, it's easy to imagine them rediscovering the magic in things that had become mundane: those final debriefs with the team; driving out for the last practice session as a full-timer; even just the mental recalibration that comes with knowing that after 19 years of waking up as a NASCAR Cup Series driver, you're going to wake up as… something else.