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.

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

"It's the perfect scenario for us right now on the stand in points," Stewart said. "This team is going to have some momentum going in to California next week."

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.

"He 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."

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

"As I got closer to [Stewart], my car just really started getting tighter and tighter, and at that point I tried searching around a little bit, but there just really wasn't anything I could do," 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, while Montoya, the only driver to post top-five finishes in all three Chase races, trails Martin by 51 markers.

"I don't think we should be getting all hyped up about the tally right now," Martin said. "We've got a lot of racing to go."

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.

"I just want to get out of Kansas, it's been a long weekend for me," Vickers said.

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.