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 Chicago Street Race. 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.
Xfinity Series Starts
Cole Custer: 161st start ties Ward Burton, ranks 96th
Brennan Poole: 142nd start ties Ricky Craven, ranks 113th
A.J. Allmendinger, Kyle Larson & Ryan Ellis: 116th start ties Ken Schrader, ranks 141st
John Hunter Nemechek: 110th start ties Ricky Stenhouse Jr., ranks 153rd
Parker Kligerman: 107th start ties Casey Mears, David Ragan & Justin Haley, ranks 157th
Austin Hill & Josh Bilicki: 99th start ties Tyler Reddick, ranks 169th
Daniel Suarez & Sheldon Creed: 88th start ties Bubba Wallace, ranks 192nd
Blaine Perkins: 61st start ties Danica Patrick, ranks 246th
Sage Karam: 30th start ties Boris Said & Kurt Busch, ranks 350th
*Brad Perez: 10th start!
*Kenko Miura: 1st start!
*Brad Perez and Kenko Miura did not qualify for the race and thus did not make their 10th and 1st start, respectively.
Cup Series Starts
Brad Keselowski: 541st start ties Clint Bowyer, ranks 40th
A.J. Allmendinger: 438th start ties Elliott Sadler, ranks 61st
Kyle Larson: 350th start!
Chris Buescher: 313th start ties Ernie Irvan & Junior Johnson, ranks 94th
Ross Chastain: 207th start ties Alan Kulwicki, ranks 141st
Chase Briscoe & Justin Haley: 128th start ties A.J. Foyt, ranks 198th
Daniel Hemric: 67th start ties Brendan Gaughan, ranks 282nd
