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 Atlanta Motor Speedway/Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. 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
Timmy Hill: 86th start ties Bob Keselowski, ranks 58th
Zane Smith: 83rd start ties Greg Biffle, ranks 63rd
Carson Hocevar: 68th start ties Ricky Carmichael, ranks 89th
Chase Purdy: 66th start ties Brad Keselowski, ranks 92nd
Hailie Deegan: 60th start ties Carl Edwards, ranks 102nd
Ty Majeski: 57th start ties Jeb Burton & Morgan Shepherd, ranks 115th
Colby Howard & Jack Wood: 42nd start ties Cole Custer & Erik Jones, ranks 160th
Corey Heim: 32nd start ties Kenny Irwin Jr., ranks 199th
Bret Holmes: 29th start ties Austin Cindric, Chase Briscoe & William Byron, ranks 215th
Jake Garcia & Rajah Caruth: 17th start ties Chase Elliott, ranks 299th
*Caleb Costner, Landen Lewis & Marco Andretti: 1st start!
*Caleb Costner did not qualify for the race at Mid-Ohio and thus will not be making his 1st career start
Xfinity Series Starts
David Starr: 257th start ties Brad Keselowski, ranks 40th
Joe Graf Jr.: 110th start ties Ricky Stenhouse Jr., ranks 146th
Kyle Weatherman: 95th start ties Darrell Waltrip, ranks 167th
Ryan Ellis: 82nd start ties Chase Elliott, ranks 200th
Josh Berry: 79th start ties Erik Jones, ranks 203rd
Parker Kligerman: 73rd start ties Jeff Gordon, ranks 215th
Anthony Alfredo: 69th start ties Matt DiBenedetto, ranks 224th
Kaz Grala: 61st start ties Danica Patrick, ranks 241st
Sheldon Creed: 54th start ties Alex Bowman & Robby Gordon, ranks 260th
Chandler Smith: 20th start ties Donnie Allison & Ron Bouchard, ranks 418th
Greg Van Alst: 1st start!
Cup Series Starts
Kevin Harvick: 809th start ties Darrell Waltrip, ranks 8th
Joey Logano: 526th start ties Benny Parsons, ranks 42nd
Christopher Bell: 127th start ties Paul Goldsmith, ranks 197th
Harrison Burton: 56th start ties Buckshot Jones, ranks 296th
Noah Gragson: 36th start ties Bob Flock & Red Farmer, ranks 370th
