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
Grant Enfinger: 206th start ties Mike Bliss, ranks 16th
Bayley Currey: 75th start!
Daniel Hemric, Jake Garcia & Rajah Caruth: 60th start ties Carl Edwards & Scott Riggs, ranks 110th
Dawson Sutton: 17th start ties Darrell Waltrip & Kyle Larson, ranks 317th
Gio Ruggiero: 10th start!
Brent Crews: 1st start!
Cup Series — All-Star Race Starts (` denotes in the Open race)
Kyle Busch: 20th start! Ties Ryan Newman & Terry Labonte, ranks 5th
Denny Hamlin: 19th start ties Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth & Rusty Wallace, ranks 8th
Brad Keselowski: 17th start ties Bobby Labonte, Dale Jarrett & Ricky Rudd, ranks 15th
Joey Logano: 15th start! Ties Geoff Bodine & Kasey Kahne, ranks 21st
Chase Elliott: 10th start! Ties Harry Gant, ranks 33rd
`A.J. Allmendinger: 8th start ties Ernie Irvan, Ken Schrader, Morgan Shepherd & Ward Burton, ranks 37th
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. & William Byron: 7th start ties Davey Allison, ranks 42nd (or 41st if Allmendinger doesn’t make race)
Austin Dillon, `Bubba Wallace, Chris Buescher, Christopher Bell, `Erik Jones & Ross Chastain: 5th start! Ranks 50th
`Michael McDowell & Tyler Reddick: 4th start ties Alan Kulwicki, Cale Yarborough, Neil Bonnett & Richard Petty, ranks 61st
Harrison Burton: 1st start! 116th different driver to start All-Star Race
`Chad Finchum, `Carson Hocevar, `Cody Ware, `John Hunter Nemechek, `Riley Hersbt, `Ryan Preece, `Shane Van Gisbergen, `Todd Gilliland, `Ty Dillon & `Zane Smith: 1st start! (potentially)
*A.J. Allmendinger did not make the All-Star Race and thus will not be making his 8th career All-Star Race start
*Bubba Wallace and Erik Jones did not make the All-Star Race and thus will not be making their 5th career All-Star Race start
*Michael McDowell did not make the All-Star Race and thus will not be making his 4th career All-Star Race start
*Chad Finchum, Cody Ware, Riley Herbst, Ryan Preece, Shane Van Gisbergen, Todd Gilliland, Ty Dillon and Zane Smith did not make the All-Star Race and thus will not be making their 1st career All-Star Race start
