.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him right into the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while supplying a pulverizing draft to chauffeurs expecting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th chauffeur to gain a playoff area along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to make the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was actually mosting likely to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe mentioned. "Our experts discussed it prior to the nationality today, this is the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our experts executed all night long, I knew our team would reside in the mix." We implemented. And also our experts were in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher missed the cut by six points while Bubba Wallace overlooked it through 27 factors. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to be in a strict war for the ultimate playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that likewise went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the ultimate two regular-season ethnicities." Our finest had not been acceptable-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd successive week, a chauffeur needing to have a succeed to make the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 aspects behind the playoff deadline, implying he had no other course to the playoffs except to win.But it was actually moreover simple fact that created this a thrilling instant. He made an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually finalizing by the end of the season. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless touch, drives the group's legendary No. 14 car that was 1st steered by Tony Stewart." It's significant," Briscoe stated. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That's the auto I cheered for maturing. I have actually found that cars and truck succeed time and time and time again, gain a champion."' I was actually bursting into tears'-- Hunt Briscoe on succeeding Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that got on a little fresher tires in the end, only couldn't catch Briscoe and also skipped the playoffs for the first time considering that 2012." Our team failed to have much rate there via a bulk of the competition," Busch mentioned. "Our company were actually just bogged down in visitor traffic, and also our company weren't able to get up via there. " But once our company got up there certainly, I seemed like those last 3 or even 4 restarts, our company were heading to take a crack at operating in the top-5. Yet after that we had a shot for the succeed and also just could not create it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Here he resides in 2nd. I'm like, 'You have actually reached be actually joking me-- I've operated 300 some tours to reach the lead, today Kyle is visiting take it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made the 2 playoff areas for winless chauffeurs and also they each had some minutes to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex wound up creating it by merely 6 factors after going into the race promised an area if there was a replay winner. He wrecked on the 2nd tour of the ethnicity as well as ended up 36th, certainly not knowing if he would certainly make the playoffs up until completion of the second phase." This is miserable," Truex said just before he knew whether he brought in the playoffs. "I simply loathe it for my crew. ... They are worthy of much better. It is actually only an error." NASCAR Cup Collection: Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was involved in a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs managed to proceed and made it by 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will have created it, but it would certainly have been actually just through a couple of placements." Our company just obtained ran actually-- I would say dirty right there-- that was unlucky," Gibbs said. "That was actually undoubtedly closer than it ought to possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy bug throughout the whole ethnicity, emotion as if he was actually mosting likely to either regurgitate or have an instance of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire ethnicity. He ended up 10th, and also with Larson completing fourth, beat Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff aspects (factors a vehicle driver can easily make use of to evolve if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while second place is worth 10. Larson, along with one of the most success of any vehicle driver this year, would possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he recorded the insect coming from his little one, mentioned it was actually awful he ever before experienced in a nationality automobile." It was actually awful on Sunday," Reddick mentioned." [I] awakened Sunday along with the same wishing it would be actually gone again." I experienced great basically completely up till the race. It just needs to have been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or even something. It merely actually, actually got bad due to the end of Stage 1. It only stayed there the remainder of the technique." Larson almost succeeded the regular-season label in spite of missing the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not just that one," Larson pointed out. "I might have ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and also not also been actually close today. I don't consider Indy as being actually the reason. That is actually only component of my period. I definitely would not lose hope managing the Indy five hundred for five perk aspects." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually invested decades covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene magazine as well as The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain even more coming from NASCAR Mug Series Observe your faves to receive info concerning video games, information and also more.