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 Daytona International 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
Grant Enfinger: 197th start ties Travis Kvapil, ranks 17th
Timmy Hill: 112th start ties Ross Chastain, ranks 48th
Josh Reaume: 76th start ties Derek Kraus, Sheldon Creed & Ty Dillon, ranks 77th
Clay Greenfield: 73rd start ties Austin Dillon, Ben Kennedy, Miguel Paludo & Ryan Truex, ranks 84th
Bayley Currey: 68th start ties Ricky Carmichael, ranks 96th
Corey Heim: 65th start ties Boris Said & Steve Park, ranks 101st
Chandler Smith: 63rd start ties Tyler Reddick, ranks 105th
Daniel Hemric, Jake Garcia & Rajah Caruth: 51st start ties Bubba Wallace, Justin Haley & Kaz Grala, ranks 140th
Matt Mills: 47th start ties Noah Gragson, ranks 154th
Mason Maggio: 22nd start ties Geoff Bodine & Marcos Ambrose, ranks 278th
William Sawalich: 17th start ties Darrell Waltrip, ranks 315th
Giovanni Ruggiero: 1st start!
Xfinity Series Starts
J.J. Yeley: 392nd start ties Elton Sawyer, ranks 12th
Josh Williams: 220th start ties Paul Menard, ranks 56th
Garrett Smithley: 181st start ties Clint Bowyer, ranks 83rd
Jeb Burton: 176th start ties Cole Custer, ranks 86th
Brennan Poole: 158th start ties Dick Trickle, ranks 102nd
Sam Mayer: 118th start ties Aric Almirola, ranks 141st
Sheldon Creed: 104th start ties Martin Truex Jr., ranks 168th
Leland Honeyman: 42nd start ties Rusty Wallace & Travis Pastrana, ranks 309th
Caesar Bacarella: 33rd start ties Shane Van Gisbergen, ranks 342nd
Carson Kvapil: 10th start!
Christian Eckes: 1st start!
*With qualifying rained out J.J. Yeley will not be making his 392nd career Xfinity start this weekend.
Cup Series Starts
Chase Elliott: 323rd start ties Brian Vickers, ranks 93rd
Bubba Wallace: 256th start ties Juan Pablo Montoya, ranks 118th
Ross Chastain: 224th start ties Regan Smith, ranks 136th
Tyler Reddick: 183rd start ties Steve Park, ranks 162nd
Todd Gilliland: 109th start ties Harrison Burton, ranks 216th
Carson Hocevar & Zane Smith: 46th start ties Ron Hornaday, ranks 337th
Helio Castroneves: 1st start!
