After two sessions of qualifying July 6 in Epping, N.H., Pro Stock driver Chris McGaha was ready to pack and go home because all the engine problems that were occurring.

By Sunday, all was forgotten.

The Odessa, Texas, driver captured the title at the New England Nationals when his opponent in the finals Erica Enders had a red-light start at New England Dragway.

“I ain’t going to lie it got gave to me in the final, it really did,” said McGaha, who pilots his family-owned Harlow Sammons Camaro. “We went up there and tried to swing and we hit a foul ball. I had no idea I would be sitting here at the end of the day. I really didn’t. I am going to say that I probably do need to go to Vegas and put some money down. Kurt Busch got on the air a couple of weeks ago and said he had a bad crew, a bad car and all that. I’m going to one up him and that was s***-house luck for us.”

McGaha posted an elapsed time of 6.570-seconds, but it didn’t matter because of what Enders did at the starting line.

This was McGaha’s first win at New England Dragway and the seventh of his career. McGaha has two wins this season with his other coming at Phoenix. McGaha is sixth in the point standings – five behind fifth-place Drew Skillman.

McGaha’s victory march consisted of wins over Jeg Coughlin, Greg Anderson, Kenny Delco and Enders. Delco, like Enders, also had a red-light start.

“Whoever said Pro Stock wasn’t entertaining because there’s a lot of that being talked about and when it happens like that it has to be entertaining, even if I wasn’t he one doing it,” McGaha said. “The first two rounds were something and then I had to race Kenny Delco. I ain’t going to lie I was more worried about that than anything that happened this weekend. I don’t want to go race this guy, it is that bad. He’s beaten me with some of the stupidest things I’ve done. When it shook I was kind of shocked that it shook. But, I saw him red light because I felt like I was racing a Comp race because the tree was coming down and I saw a car go by the Christmas tree and I thought ‘is this Comp Eliminator again?’ Then, it started shaking and everybody I was going to pull a Somona (Calif.), and get back in it and hit the wall or take the cone out and I didn’t because I saw the light, and I just calmly went down to the end.”

Against Enders, McGaha was exploring all options.

“We shook (in the semifinals) and we actually did something I had never really done in Pro Stock, we actually went back and got more aggressive,” McGaha said. “We thought, what do we have to lose? It went, and it went a 57 and she went a (6).549. They definitely had us beat, they just didn’t get it done.”

McGaha took a moment to praise the parity in the Pro Stock class.

“You look at it and Greg (Anderson) and Jason (Line) have not won a race yet, that’s pretty serious after the dominant seasons they have had coming up to this point,” McGaha said. “The fact they have not won says a lot. It says even a guy like me has a chance.”