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 Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and Indianapolis Motor 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
Ty Dillon: 73rd start ties Austin Dillon, Ben Kennedy, Bobby Dotter, Miguel Paludo & Ryan Truex, ranks 82nd
Lawless Alan: 38th start ties Ricky Carmichael, ranks 94th
Dean Thompson: 62nd start ties Chandler Smith, ranks 103rd
Jack Wood: 57th start ties Christopher Bell, Jeb Burton & Morgan Shepherd, ranks 119th
Bret Holmes: 51st start ties Bubba Wallace, Justin Haley & Kaz Grala, ranks 138th
Jake Garcia & Rajah Caruth: 42nd start ties Cole Custer & Erik Jones, ranks 168th
Mason Massey: 29th start ties Austin Cindric, Chase Briscoe & William Byron, ranks 222nd
Thad Moffitt: 18th start ties Chase Elliott, ranks 306th
Tyler Tomassi: 1st start!
Xfinity Series Starts
Josh Williams: 206th start ties Ross Chastain, ranks 67th
A.J. Allmendinger & Ryan Ellis: 118th start ties Brett Moffitt, ranks 138th
Aric Almirola: 110th start ties John Hunter Nemechek & Ricky Stenhouse Jr., ranks 153rd
Sam Mayer: 104th start ties Martin Truex Jr., ranks 165th
Matt DiBenedetto: 84th start ties Chase Elliott, ranks 203rd
Parker Retzlaff & Sammy Smith: 62nd start ties Ryan Preece, ranks 245th
Chandler Smith: 56th start ties Alex Bowman & Steve Park, ranks 258th
Jesse Love & Shane Van Gisbergen: 20th start ties Donnie Allison & Ron Bouchard, ranks 424th
Cup Series Starts
Kyle Busch: 700th start! Ties Buddy Baker, ranks 19th
Jimmie Johnson: 695th start ties Jeff Burton, ranks 22nd
Kyle Larson: 352nd start ties Ned Jarrett, ranks 81st
Chase Elliott: 308th start ties Bobby Isaac, ranks 99th
Erik Jones: 275th start!
Bubba Wallace: 241st start ties Todd Bodine, ranks 123rd
Josh Berry: 34th start ties Parnelli Jones, ranks 389th
