Kansas City, KS (My Sportsbook) - Tony Stewart put himself back in the hunt for the "Chase for the Sprint Cup" championship by winning Sunday's Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway.

Stewart and crew chief Darian Grubb gambled with a two-tire stop late in the race. He exited the pits first and grabbed the lead with 30 laps remaining. The two-time Cup Series champion then held off a hard-charging Jeff Gordon in the closing laps for his fourth win of the season and the 37th of his Cup career. Stewart, who also won at Kansas in 2006, joined Gordon as the only repeat winners at Kansas.

"[Grubb] is a little gutsy, so that's a good thing," Stewart said. "You just don't question Darian. When he makes a call, you know it's the right thing to do and you go from there."

Stewart is in his first year as driver and owner, with Grubb coming on board as his crew chief at the start of the season.

With the victory, Stewart moved to within 67 points of leader Mark Martin, who finished seventh.

Stewart and teammate Ryan Newman are scheduled to compete in a Late Model race at Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, IA tonight.

"First thing, it means I'm going to be late in Knoxville, Iowa tonight to run a dirt Late Model," Stewart jokingly said.

Gordon finished second, with Greg Biffle, Juan Pablo Montoya and Denny Hamlin completing the top-five.

"This is the kind of finish we needed to have on a mile-and-a-half here at Kansas, and I feel like we just got to capitalize on the tracks that are good for us," Gordon said.

Biffle led a race-high 113 laps, but took four tires on his final stop and could not catch Stewart at the end.

Kasey Kahne finished sixth, while David Reutimann took the eighth spot, Jimmie Johnson ninth and Carl Edwards 10th.

Edwards overcame a one-lap deficit when he was penalized for speeding on pit road early in the race. Johnson was a factor for most of the race, but gave up track position after his last stop for four tires.

"We had such a great car, and we felt four [tires] was the way to go," said Johnson, who won last year's race at Kansas. "We certainly lost some track position, and we were in dirty air."

Martin now holds an 18-point lead over Johnson, as the series travels next weekend to California. Montoya, the only driver to post top-five finishes in all three Chase races, trails Martin by 51 markers.

"It's really great when a race team can fight, scratch and battle and come up with a seventh-place finish when you miss it a little bit," Martin said.

Nine Chase drivers finished in the top-10.

Kurt Busch came in 11th, while Newman was 22nd. Brian Vickers had the worst finish among the 12-Chase drivers. Vickers dealt an ill-handling car before he suffered engine failure in the late-going. He wound up 37th.

Vickers dropped to last in the Chase rankings, 250 points behind Martin.

The 400-mile race at Kansas featured a track-record 26 lead changes among 14 drivers.