Richmond, VA (My Sportsbook) - Virginia native Denny Hamlin won at his home track Richmond International Raceway for the first time in his Sprint Cup Series career with a dominating performance in Saturday's Chevy Rock & Roll 400.

Hamlin, from nearby Chesterfield, led 298 of 400 laps and held off Kurt Busch after a late-race restart for his second victory of the season and the sixth of his Cup career. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver captured the fourth seed in the "Chase for the Sprint Cup" championship, which begins next weekend at New Hampshire.

"They better watch us, because this team is dangerous," Hamlin said.

Hamlin, along with Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, had already clinched a spot in the Chase prior to Richmond, the 26th and final race of the regular season.

While Hamlin captured the victory, his JGR teammate, Kyle Busch, fell just eight points short of Brian Vickers for the final spot in the Chase.

"It's not the eight points that we sacrificed tonight, it's the conglomerate of points that we sacrificed all year," Kyle Busch said. "We didn't have the best of years to be consistent and unfortunately that bit us."

Kyle Busch finished fifth, but Vickers seventh-place run was good enough to put the Red Bull Racing driver in the Chase for the first time in his career.

"I'm so proud of everybody at Red Bull Toyota," Vickers said. "This hasn't been just one race, it's been a culmination of 26 races and nobody giving up. Two and a half years with no program, I would have never imagined this far along with six poles and a win and now we're in the Chase."

Matt Kenseth came to Richmond 12th in points, but failed to qualify for the playoffs after dealing with an ill-handling car throughout the race. Kenseth, who won at Daytona and California at the start of the season, finished 25th and missed making the Chase for the first time since the championship format began in 2004.

Johnson is the only driver who has qualified for the Chase in all six years. The Hendrick Motorsports driver will begin his quest for a record fourth straight Cup championship in the third seed.

Mark Martin locked up his spot with a fourth-place finish. Martin, who is the oldest driver to compete in the Chase at age 50, secured the top seed by virtue of his four victories during the regular season.

Stewart, in his first year as driver and owner, will start in the second seed.

Kasey Kahne captured the fifth Chase spot, followed by Gordon, Kurt Busch, Vickers, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Juan Pablo Montoya, who also made the Chase for the first time, and Greg Biffle.