Pro Stock driver Chris McGaha has shown he can compete against NHRA’s best winning seven national events in his career.

McGaha entered the U.S. Nationals eighth in the points, on the strength of two wins at Phoenix, Ariz., and Epping, N.H.

McGaha, who drives his family-owned Harlow Sammons Chevy Camaro, said he will not be competing full-time next year.

“I’m probably going to do a limited schedule just cause,” said McGaha, who is based in Odessa, Texas. “It’s too much to go to all that Eastern Swing when they stack races up. I still need to take my kids racing. I didn’t get to do it near as much this year. I will probably run about 15 or 16 races next year. I will probably run all the way up to Atlanta and I wouldn’t come back to Topeka (Kan.). Then, I would do the (Western) Swing and I would skip Brainerd (Minn.), and I would do Indy and start again at St. Louis and then do Dallas, Vegas and Pomona (Calif.).”

McGaha has a 16-year-old son, Mason, and a 12-year-old daughter, Berkley.

“Mason has done Junior Dragsters and he has been driving our COPO car at our local track (in Odessa),” McGaha said. “I’ve been thinking about building a Factory Showdown car and maybe running it in some Stock and taking it to some divisional races and have Mason drive it. That may be why I will not race as much. I may do that. Mason wants to do Pro Stock and he would love to do Pro Stock and I want him to do Pro Stock, but also at the same time I’m sitting here going, ‘Where is the future of this going?’. I want to keep doing it, but I’m not going to come out here and fight a losing battle either.”

McGaha also isn't a fan of the Pro Stock class incorporating Mountain Motor Pro Stock into NHRA’s Pro Stock class.

“It is still stupid,” McGaha said. “It was stupid two weeks ago and it is still going to be so backwards. They aren’t listening to the fans. I don’t see how they are going to get parity either, but nobody really cares about my opinion. I know this, I don’t know what they are planning on doing, but whatever they are going to do, they need to hurry up and start letting people know. It is not going to be long before it is going to be next year already. I’m not near as optimistic as some others. They keep messing with this Pro Stock deal and they are going backwards on it. Everybody gripes about the way it is, so let’s double down on it is what they’re doing I think.”