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 North Wilkesboro Speedway. Rankings reflect the all-time starts list for that series.
(The image above each series 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
Ben Rhodes: 197th start ties Travis Kvapil, ranks 16th
Ty Majeski: 76th start ties Derek Kraus & Sheldon Creed, ranks 76th
Josh Reaume: 75th start!
Ty Dillon: 68th start ties Ricky Carmichael, ranks 93rd
Lawless Alan: 63rd start ties Tyler Reddick, ranks 101st
Dean Thompson: 57th start ties Christopher Bell, Jeb Burton & Morgan Shepherd, ranks 117th
Corey Heim: 51st start ties Bubba Wallace, Justin Haley & Kaz Grala, ranks 137th
Taylor Gray: 43rd start ties Matt DiBenedetto, ranks 163rd
Brenden Queen, Clayton Green & Dawson Sutton: 1st start!
Cup Series — All-Star Race Starts (` denotes in the Open race)
Kyle Busch: 19th start ties Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth & Rusty Wallace, ranks 7th
Denny Hamlin: 18th start ties Bill Elliott, Dale Earnhardt Jr. & Tony Stewart, ranks 11th
Brad Keselowski: 16th start ties Dale Earnhardt & Darrell Waltrip, ranks 18th
Kyle Larson & Ryan Blaney: 8th start ties Ernie Irvan, Ken Schrader, Morgan Shepherd & Ward Burton, ranks 35th
A.J. Allmendinger: 7th start ties Davey Allison, ranks 41st
`Austin Dillon, Daniel Suarez & `Erik Jones: 5th start!
`Bubba Wallace, Chris Buescher, Christopher Bell & Ross Chastain: 4th start ties Alan Kulwicki, Cale Yarborough, Neil Bonnett & Richard Petty, ranks 54th
`Carson Hocevar, `Corey Lajoie, `Daniel Hemric, `Harrison Burton, `John Hunter Nemechek, `Kaz Grala, `Ryan Preece, `Timmy Hill, `Todd Gilliland & `Zane Smith: 1st start! (potentially)
*Austin Dillon and Erik Jones did not make the All-Star Race and will not be making their 5th career All-Star Race start
*Everyone that would have made their 1st career All-Star Race start did not make the All-Star Race
