Chase Purdy is racing full-time, but his days at Ole Miss will always have a piece of his heart

Feb. 17—There are times when NASCAR driver Chase Purdy wonders what would have happened if he hadn't kept that expired ID card on him. But a foot in the door is a foot in the door. And that fateful day at Talladega nudged the door back open for a then-college student who wanted nothing more than to bust it all the way down. Purdy — born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but largely raised in Meridian — …