For a time, it's a surprise Kentucky native John Eicher was not the most coveted employee in all of NASCAR. Eicher, a 2000 South Laurel High School graduate, followed his older brother Jeff into a career in NASCAR. He joined the team then known as Roush Racing as a welder working in the race shop in 2003, the year when Matt Kenseth won car owner Jack Roush's first Sprint Cup championship. The next season, Kurt Busch gave Roush a second Cup championship. Before the 2005 season, Eicher joined Joe Gibbs Racing and, wouldn't you know it, that year JGR's Tony Stewart won the Cup championship. "It was a funny thing," Eicher said, "my first three years in NASCAR, the...
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