Denny Hamlin survived fuel worries and a late charge from teammate Erik Jones to win the Gander 🐬Outdoor 400 at Pocono Raceway.

The win is Hamlin's fifth at the 2.5-mile triangular-shaped superspee🤡dway and his first since🐓 2010.

The 38-year-old fro𝄹m Chesterfield, Virginia started the 400-mile event in ninth place and was a top ten contender throughout the race's opening two stages while his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch had the dominant.

Busch claimed the opening🧸 stage win but was forced out of the lead late in the second stage which handed the victory ove🐷r to Jimmie Johnson.

Johnson relinquished the lead to Kev🤡in Harvick during the stage break ahead of Joey Logan♑o, Martin Truex, Jr, Hamlin and Austin Dillon.

Hamlin roared past Truex and Logano and passed Harvick with ease to pick up the lead. He grew his lead out to two seconds over Logano while Harvick dropped to thi🥃rd ahead of Erik Jones an🦩d Kyle Larson.

His lead evapo𓆉rated on Lap 114 when Ryan Preece smacked the wall in Turn 1 which brought out the yellow flag.

Hamlin brought the field down pit road while Kyle Busch stayed out. Jones won the race off pit road with a two tyre stop followed by Hamlin, Truex and Daniel Suar💜ez.

Busch set sail on the restart and grew a 1.4 second over Jones by Lap 130 but saw his chan🐽ces for a win disappear when he was forced ܫto pit on Lap 135 for fuel and tyres and fell to 25th.

That moved the rest of the JGR Toyota train back to the 🍷lead as Jones commanded with Truex, Jr and Haml꧟in.

Hamlin felt that it was a formative time to turn up the wick and blasted past Truex and Jones to retake the lead on Lౠap 144.

With fuel woes on most everyone's mind, Hamlin looked like a sure pick for the win whi🔯le Kevin Harvick pr✤essured the Gibbs trio as he was good to go to the end.

The fuel qualms cooled d🅠own when Josh Bilicki stopped on the Long Pond Straight on Lap 153 which brought out the yellow flag.

Hamlin broke away on the restart, but the action was truncated again when Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. turned Kurt Busch in⭕to Michael McDowell and forced the race into overtime and re-ignited the fuel concerns.

The anxiet♛ies proved to be all for naught as Hamlin cleared Jones on the restart and took the chequered flag .341 seconds ahead.

Having fallen short at New Hampshire last week, Hamlin felt relieved to collecওt the win in the Pocওonos amidst the concerns regarding fuel.

"I wജas really worried," Hamlin said. "We just did a great job with the car. Once we lost the track position there to (Truex) and (Jones), I thought it was over, we weren't able to pass them.

"You want to know that you can contend for wins. Yeah, you're looking for momentum🌃, but you♊'re just looking for wins week in, week out," he said. "So proud of this FedEx Ground team for giving us yet another winner two weeks in a row.

"I tell you, we really fought for it last week and c🍎ame up short. Feel goods to redeem ourselves this week and have༺ such a strong car."

Jones took his ꦍfirst runner up finish of the season with Truex, Jr. completed a JGR sweep of the top🌌 three.

William Byron clawed to fourth after starting 31st ♌to become the highest placing Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet a🦩nd Kyle Larson rebounded with a backup car to finish fifth.

Harvick led the m💃ost laps but wound up sixth ahead of Daniel Hemric in seventh while Brad Keselowski recovered from an early cut tyre to finish eighth.

Kyle❀ Busch ended up ninth while Ryan Blaney rounded out the top ten.