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Purdy was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama but raised in Meridian, Mississippi. His father, Charlie, is a doctor in Meridian, Mississippi, who specializes in family medicine. Chase is one of five kids in his family. Chase attended Cox Mill High School. As of 2022 he was a Junior at the University of Mississippi. Bill Barkley, his grandfather, owns Bama Buggies, which is a Powersports store in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bama Buggies is often seen as a sponsor on NASCAR race cars. Advancing up the ladder like many racers do, Purdy first raced in go-karts, noting a memorable winning experience across the way from Talladega Superspeedway when he was young. He later moved to Bandolero cars, Legend cars, Late Model Stock cars and super late model cars, teaming up with former NASCAR driver David Gilliland and his team in SLMs. Purdy is a former NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national rookie of the year. He finished second in his debut NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season in 2017. In fact he raced five times in the K&N Series that year and finished second EVERY time. Purdy began driving full-time in the ARCA Racing Series in

2018. Purdy finished fourth in the season-long points tally, but did not break into Victory Lane. He finished second at Toledo and at St Louis. He posted ten top five finishes that year. He also raced ten Super Late model events that year, including traveling across the United States to finish sixth in the Slinger Nationals at Slinger Super Speedway in Wisconsin. Purdy raced in his first ARCA Midwest Tour race at Wisconsin International Raceway and won the Dixieland 250 in his first appearance at the D-shaped 1/2 mile track. In summer 2018, Purdy's backers told him that they would not return for 2019, leaving his racing career in limbo. In his final late model race of 2018, Purdy won the Snowflake 100 at Five Flags Speedway. On October 17, 2018, it was announced that Purdy would make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at Martinsville, driving the #99 truck for MDM Motor sports on October 17, 2018. He started 27th and finished 21st, and raced again in the

Truck Series two weeks later at ISM Raceway, where he started 19th and finished 13th. He returned to the series in 2020, joining GMS Racing for a seven-race schedule in the #24 truck. In 2021, Purdy became a full-time driver for GMS in the Truck Series, replacing Brett Moffitt in the team's #23 truck. He had a best finish of sixth; coming at St Louis, and added a top ten at Talladega. In October, 2021, GMS announced that Grant Enfinger would drive the #23 truck full-time in 2022. Purdy moved to Hattori Racing Enterprises and the #61 truck. His best finish with this team came at Talladega when he finished seventh. P urdy

will move to Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2023 driving the #4 Chevrolet. Busch has a knack for finding little known talent and turning them into winning race drivers. We'll see how this plays out. Purdy was back in the Truck series for his third full season. He’d shown more improvement each year. He opened the season with a 17th place run at Daytona finishing on the lead lap. He ran well the next race finishing eighth at Las Vegas, and better that one spot the next race at Atlanta coming home seventh. At Texas he almost pulled off the win, finishing second behind Carson Hocevar. Runs were sporadic. He crashed out at Kansas and Darlington, the only two races he fell out of besides when he was caught up in ‘the big one’ late in the

season at Talladega. Most of his runs came when he finished between fifth and 15th. He made a good run as the season closed out at Phoenix when he was third. For the year he won two poles, and had three top five finishes. He had eleven top ten finishes on the season. It was announced late in the year Kyle Busch had sold KBM to Spire Motorsports. He will stay on as advisor, and they will provide Busch a truck to drive in five events in 2024. Purdy will be retained as the driver of the #4. Some info from Wikipedia.

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CHARLES RUSSELL "CHASE" PURDY III - 11/11/1999