Denny Hamlin is not backing off a comment he made the last time the Sprint Cup series raced at Martinsville Speedway: He'll do to Jimmie Johnson what Johnson did to him.

Johnson and Hamlin made contact racing for the lead with 16 laps left in the March race at Martinsville. Hamlin drifted high and Johnson shot past on the way to his fifth win in the last six races at Martinsville. Hamlin finished second.

Johnson said after the race that he tried to avoid the contact. Hamlin didn't quite see it that way. And doesn't now.

"If I'm in the same situation, I definitely will have that in the back of my mind and probably will do the same to him,'' Hamlin said Tuesday. "There's been a couple of instances at the end of races -- Loudon, New Hampshire [and] Chicago -- where I nudged Jimmie out of the way with a few laps to go to get a position, but it's never really been for a race win.

"I'm not going to say that I owe him one or anything like that, but I'm going to race hard to try to get a win, especially in the situation that I'm at right now, I can afford to be a little bit more aggressive and just do everything I can."

Hamlin fell to 11th in the points after failing to finish Saturday night's race at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Johnson is first and halfway to a record-breaking fourth consecutive title.

Pit stops

Goodyear completed a two-day tire test Tuesday at Lowe's Motor Speedway with Marcos Ambrose, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Matt Kenseth and Elliott Sadler. ... Although he won at Martinsville in the spring, Jimmie Johnson will bring back a different car this weekend.