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 Nashville Superspeedway. 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.
This weekend Akinori Ogata will be making his 17th career Truck Series start which ties him with a couple of NASCAR Cup Champions, Darrell Waltrip and Kyle Larson on the all-time starts list. Image credit: @AkinoriOgata X Page
Truck Series Starts
Spencer Boyd: 143rd start ties Bill Lester, ranks 31st
Corey Heim: 76th start ties Derek Kraus, Sheldon Creed & Ty Dillon Ranks 79th
Bayley Currey: 75th start! Ranks 83rd
Jack Wood: 73rd start ties Austin Dillon, Bobby Dotter, Miguel Paludo & Ryan Truex, ranks 87th
Matt Mills: 58th start ties Ryan Blaney, ranks 120th
William Sawalich: 20th start ties Elliott Sadler, ranks 297th
Akinori Ogata: 17th start ties Darrell Waltrip & Kyle Larson, ranks 318th
Corey Day: 10th start!
At Nashville this weekend Aric Almirola will be making his 124th career Xfinity Series start which ties him with 2X Cup Champion and Hall of Famer Terry Labonte. Photo by Jared C. Tilton — Getty Images
Xfinity Series Starts
Ross Chastain: 211th start ties Jimmy Spencer, ranks 61st
Jeffrey Earnhardt: 176th start ties Cole Custer, ranks 88th
Sam Mayer: 131st start ties A.J. Allmendinger, ranks 128th
Austin Hill: 128th start ties Harry Gant, ranks 134th
Aric Almirola: 124th start ties Terry Labonte, ranks 138th
Matt DiBenedetto & Myatt Snider: 111th start ties John Hunter Nemechek, ranks 158th
Kyle Sieg: 95th start ties Darrell Waltrip, ranks 179th
Parker Retzlaff: 88th start ties Bubba Wallace & Daniel Suarez, ranks 198th
Mason Massey: 62nd start ties Ryan Preece, ranks 248th
Kris Wright: 30th start ties Boris Said & Kurt Busch, ranks 356th
Carson Kvapil: 23rd start ties Juan Pablo Montoya, ranks 406th
Nick Sanchez: 22nd start ties Corey LaJoie, ranks 411th
*Katherine Legge & Thomas Annunziata: 10th start!
*Katherine Legge did not make the race and thus did not make her 10th career Xfinity start.
This weekend Denny Hamlin ties two former Cup Series greats, Buddy Baker and Jimmie Johnson by making his 700th career Cup start. Photo by Chris Graythen — Getty Images
Cup Series Starts
Denny Hamlin: 700th start! Ties Buddy Baker & Jimmie Johnson, ranks 20th
Michael McDowell: 515th start ties Greg Biffle, ranks 46th
A.J. Allmendinger: 460th start ties Aric Almirola, ranks 57th
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: 450th start! Ranks 60th
Erik Jones: 303rd start ties Dick Trickle, ranks 102nd
Josh Berry: 62nd start ties Glen Wood, ranks 291st