Below are some potential notable starts being made by drivers this weekend. Notable meaning they will be tied with a driver in number of starts made in that specific series, or the number of starts being made is a significant number that they are reaching in their specific race this weekend at the last 2 mile race at Auto Club Speedway. Rankings reflect the all-time starts list for that series.
(The featured image is the driver I find having the most notable start this weekend)
*This will be updated after qualifying for each race if a driver does not make the race.
Xfinity Series Starts
**Brandon Jones: 238th start ties Timmy Hill (if Hill doesn’t make the race), ranks 50th
Jeb Burton & Riley Herbst: 111th start ties Kyle Larson, ranks 141st
Brennan Poole & Joe Graf Jr.: 95th start ties Darrell Waltrip, ranks 163rd
Brett Moffitt: 86th start ties Bobby Hamilton, Chase Briscoe & Davey Allison, ranks 184th
Gray Gaulding: 70th start ties Ryan Blaney, ranks 216th
John Hunter Nemechek & Ryan Ellis: 69th start ties Matt DiBenedetto, ranks 220th
Josh Berry: 64th start ties Ryan Newman, ranks 230th
Austin Hill: 50th start!
Sheldon Creed: 39th start ties Coy Gibbs, ranks 309th
**Timmy Hill did make the race and thus Brandon Jones did not tie him in starts
Cup Series Starts
A.J. Allmendinger: 396th start ties Robby Gordon, ranks 69th
Daniel Suarez: 217th start ties Chad Little, ranks 132nd
Bubba Wallace: 185th start ties Tim Richmond, ranks 155th