Loudon, NH (My Sportsbook) - Jimmie Johnson continued his resurgence in the Sprint Cup Series by winning Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 301 after taking the lead from Kurt Busch with less than two laps remaining at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Johnson, who also won last weekend's road-course race at Sonoma, CA, took the lead from Jeff Burton just after a restart with 12 laps remaining. Burton did not pit, while the other leaders came in for the final time following an incident with Juan Pablo Montoya and Reed Sorenson.

Two laps after losing the lead, Burton, on old tires, got loose and crashed into Kyle Busch while the two were battling for position. The final caution set up an eight-lap shootout to the finish. After the last restart, Kurt Busch chased down Johnson and made a bump and run move on the four-time defending series champion to take the top spot for the first time in the 301-lap race.

But Johnson came storming back and took the lead with a lap and a half to go. Johnson then cruised to his fifth victory of the season and the 52nd of his Cup career.

"Kurt knocked me out the way, and I thought, 'I don't care if I win this race or not, and I don't care if I finish this damn thing, I am running into him and getting back in line one way or another'," said Johnson, who won at New Hampshire for the third time.

Johnson's fifth win of the season placed him in a tie with Denny Hamlin for most victories so far this year.

Tony Stewart passed Kurt Busch on the final lap to take second, while Busch ended up third. Jeff Gordon and points leader Kevin Harvick rounded out the top-five.

"At the end, our car was very strong on the short run, and we knew we needed tires to be able to battle these guys," Kurt Busch said. "We didn't have a winning car, but we almost put it in position to get a win. While battling with Jimmie, we did what we could to get the lead, and I was just counting the laps and saying that there's not enough laps, but we battled as best we could."

With the win, Johnson moved to within 105 points of Harvick.

Ryan Newman finished sixth, and Clint Bowyer took the seventh spot. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s eighth-place finish put him just three points behind 12th-place Carl Edwards, as nine races remain before the championship Chase begins in September at New Hampshire. Edwards finished 25th.

Burton and Kyle Busch fell out of contention to win after their incident in the closing laps. Busch wound up 11th, while Burton finished one spot behind in 12th.

"[Kyle Busch] didn't have anything to do with that; it was all me," Burton said. "It was more of an incident with me, and he paid the price for it. He didn't do anything wrong."

Montoya, the pole sitter, was running among the top-10 before Sorenson, who was a lap down, bumped Montoya and sent him into the wall. The two were teammates at Chip Ganassi Racing until Sorenson exited the team after the 2008 season.

"It's a shame when somebody is a lap down and an ex-teammate comes and does that to you, but I'm not surprised," Montoya said after finishing 34th.

Sorenson currently is driving the No.83 Toyota in place of Brian Vickers, who is out for the remainder of the season for treatment of blood clots.

Kasey Kahne led a race-high 110 laps before he experienced engine trouble on lap 205 and then fell off the pace. Kahne's engine expired several laps later, as he finished a disappointing 36th.