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 Kansas 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.
Truck Series Starts
Tanner Gray: 90th start ties Jay Sauter, ranks 57th
Carson Hocevar: 73rd start ties Austin Dillon & Ryan Truex, ranks 79th
Hailie Deegan: 65th start ties Boris Said & Steve Park, ranks 95th
Lawless Alan: 49th start ties Brandon Jones, ranks 138th
Colby Howard: 47th start ties Noah Gragson, ranks 144th
Matt DiBenedetto: 42nd start ties Cole Custer & Erik Jones, ranks 163rd
Bayley Currey: 40th start ties Harrison Burton, ranks 170th
Taylor Gray: 29th start ties Austin Cindric, Chase Briscoe & William Byron, ranks 216th
Kaden Honeycutt: 18th start ties Chase Elliott, ranks 303rd
Xfinity Series Starts
Garrett Smithley: 158th start ties Dick Trickle, ranks 98th
Cole Custer: 136th start ties Dale Earnhardt, ranks 113th
Jeb Burton & Riley Herbst: 135th start ties Noah Gragson, ranks 116th
Brett Moffitt: 110th start ties Ricky Stenhouse Jr., ranks 148th
Josh Berry: 88th start ties Bubba Wallace, ranks 186th
Sam Mayer: 77th start ties Christopher Bell, Marcos Ambrose & Sterling Marlin, ranks 208th
Austin Hill: 74th start ties Chris Buescher, ranks 217th
Kaz Grala: 70th start ties Ryan Blaney, ranks 224th
Kyle Sieg: 43rd start ties Adam Petty & Bobby Allison, ranks 294th
Blaine Perkins: 37th start ties William Byron, ranks 319th
Connor Mosack: 20th start ties Donnie Allison & Ron Bouchard, ranks 420th
Nick Leitz: 1st start!
Cup Series Starts
J.J. Yeley: 371st start ties Bobby Hamilton, ranks 75th
Austin Dillon: 364th start ties Rick Mast, ranks 77th
Kyle Larson: 323rd start ties Brian Vickers, ranks 89th
Chris Buescher: 285th start ties Richard Childress, ranks 103rd
Chase Elliott: 278th start ties Ricky Craven, ranks 106th
Ty Dillon: 230th start ties Joe Weatherly, ranks 127th
Chase Briscoe & Justin Haley: 100th start!
Sheldon Creed: 1st start!
