Martinsville, VA (My Sportsbook) - Virginia-native and Chase contender Denny Hamlin held off points leader Jimmie Johnson in several late-race restarts to win Sunday's Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway.

Hamlin grabbed the lead from Johnson with 139 laps remaining and then a lightning-fast pit stop under green late in the race allowed him to keep the top position. An incident involving rookie Scott Speed set up a green-white- checkered finish. On the final restart, Hamlin pulled away from Johnson and fended him off before the race concluded under caution when John Andretti spun around at the start/finish line.

Earlier in the race, Hamlin sustained damage to his front fender during his first pit stop, but managed to run among the top-10 for the remainder of the 500-lap event.

Hamlin, who had finished 37th or worse in the last two Chase races, rebounded with his second win at Martinsville -- the shortest track on the Sprint Cup Series. He also claimed his third victory of the season. Last month, Hamlin concluded the "regular season" by winning at Richmond -- his hometrack.

"It's a good bounce back," said Hamlin, who led a race-high 206 laps. "We just had the best car at the end. [Johnson] didn't do anything that he shouldn't have and made sure he protected his points lead and gave us a little bit of respect as well."

In March, Johnson nudged Hamlin out of the lead with 16 laps remaining to win at Martinsville for the fifth time in the last six races here. Hamlin, who won the 2008 spring race at Martinsville, admitted earlier this weekend he was looking for payback against Johnson.

Johnson finished second and increased his lead to 118 points over Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin, who finished eighth.

"Denny had the best car on that last run there," Johnson said. "It was a great day for us, and I wish we could have won. But second, there's nothing wrong with that."

Juan Pablo Montoya ran aggressively to a third-place finish. Montoya bumped into Jeff Gordon while the two were battling for a top-five position in the early going.

"When somebody races you hard, you're going to race hard," Montoya said.

Montoya moved up one spot to fifth in points (-200). Gordon's fifth-place finish put him 150 points behind Johnson with four races remaining in the Chase.

"[Montoya] is an aggressive driver, and I've seen it from him before," Gordon said. "I thought I did something to make him mad, because I didn't understand why he was driving into me for no reason."

Jamie McMurray finished sixth, and Ryan Newman, the pole sitter, was seventh. Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick completed the top-10.

Stewart is fourth in points (-192), as he attempts to defend his race title in next Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway.