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 Darlington Raceway. 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.
Truck Series Starts
Ross Chastain: 105th start ties Ken Schrader, ranks 47th
Zane Smith: 78th start ties Aric Almirola, ranks 68th
Josh Reaume: 70th start ties Joe Nemechek, ranks 84th
Carson Hocevar: 63rd start ties Tyler Reddick, ranks 96th
Bubba Wallace: 50th start!
Matt DiBenedetto: 32nd start ties Kenny Irwin Jr., ranks 197th
Dawson Cram: 31st start ties David Ragan & Jimmy Spencer, ranks 202nd
Corey Heim & William Byron: 28th start ties Daniel Suarez & Kurt Busch, ranks 225th
*Josh Reaume did not qualify and thus will not be making his 70th start
Xfinity Series Starts
Cole Custer & Matt Mills: 121st start ties David Blaney, ranks 129th
Jeb Burton & Riley Herbst: 120th start ties Sam Hornish Jr., ranks 132nd
Brennan Poole & Joe Graf Jr.: 104th start ties Justin Haley & Martin Truex Jr., ranks 153rd
Brett Moffitt: 95th start ties Darrell Waltrip, ranks 165th
Josh Berry: 73rd start ties Jeff Gordon, ranks 214th
Sam Mayer: 62nd start ties Ryan Preece, ranks 237th
Kaz Grala: 55th start ties Kyle Petty, ranks 254th
Stefan Parsons: 54th start ties Alex Bowman & Robby Gordon, ranks 258th
Kyle Sieg: 30th start ties Kurt Busch, ranks 343rd
Parker Retzlaff & Sammy Smith: 20th start ties Donnie Allison & Ron Bouchard, ranks 415th
Cup Series Starts
Kyle Larson: 308th start ties Bobby Isaac, ranks 95th
Chris Buescher: 270th start ties Jeff Green, ranks 108th
Ryan Preece: 128th start ties A.J. Foyt, ranks 194th
Harrison Burton: 50th start!
Josh Berry: 10th start!
