.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him right into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while supplying a squashing draft to motorists expecting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th driver to make a playoff spot with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I recognized it was mosting likely to be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe said. "Our company discussed it before the race today, this is actually the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our experts executed all night long, I knew we would certainly be in the mix." We carried out. And our experts remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced by six factors while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 aspects. For much of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be to become in a tight battle for the final playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who also went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the last two regular-season nationalities." Our finest had not been adequate-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd successive week, a chauffeur requiring a win to bring in the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the race 18th in the standings and also 114 factors responsible for the playoff cutoff, implying he possessed nothing else pathway to the playoffs except to win.But it was more simple fact that created this an electrifying moment. He earned a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is finalizing at the end of the season. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, steers the staff's legendary No. 14 auto that was actually 1st steered through Tony Stewart." It is actually significant," Briscoe mentioned. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That is actually the car I cheered for growing up. I have actually viewed that vehicle gain time and time and time again, succeed a champion."' I was actually sobbing'-- Chase Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, that performed a little fresher tires by the end, only couldn't find Briscoe and overlooked the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our company didn't have a lot rate there through a majority of the competition," Busch stated. "Our experts were actually merely stuck in traffic, and our experts weren't able to rise with there. " But once our experts rose there, I seemed like those final 3 or 4 restarts, our team were actually heading to have a shot operating in the top-5. But then our company had a shot for the gain and only could not make it up there." Briscoe thanked Busch for dashing him clean." Listed below he is in 2nd. I resemble, 'You've got to be kidding me-- I have actually worked 300 some tours to get to the top, now Kyle is actually heading to swipe it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs earned both playoff locations for winless vehicle drivers and they both had some minutes to sweat as both were associated with wrecks.Truex wound up making it through merely 6 factors after entering into the ethnicity promised a location if there was a regular victor. He ravaged on the second tour of the nationality as well as ended up 36th, not understanding if he would bring in the playoffs up until the end of the second stage." This is actually unhappy," Truex mentioned just before he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I only detest it for my crew. ... They are worthy of far better. It is actually just an error." NASCAR Mug Series: Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was actually associated with an accident with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to proceed and made the cut by 12 aspects. If he had actually been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would possess produced it, yet it would have been actually just by a number of settings." Our company merely received operated truly-- I would certainly say dirty right certainly there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was actually absolutely closer than it ought to possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy pest throughout the entire nationality, emotion as if he was heading to either vomit or have a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and also along with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff aspects (factors a vehicle driver can easily use to accelerate if he does not gain in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd spot is worth 10. Larson, with the absolute most success of any sort of chauffeur this year, will possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he recorded the pest from his youngster, claimed it was actually the worst he ever experienced in a race automobile." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick said." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the same wishing it would be actually gone again." I really felt excellent more or less right up until the ethnicity. It just has to have been the rub out of [Turn] 2 or one thing. It only really, definitely received negative by the end of Phase 1. It simply remained there the rest of the means." Larson nearly gained the regular-season title in spite of missing the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually not simply that," Larson stated. "I might have completed at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or completed at Chicago as well as certainly not also been actually close today. I do not examine Indy as being the reason why. That is actually only part of my time. I would not lose hope operating the Indy 500 for 5 benefit points." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually spent years covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Performance magazine and The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain more coming from NASCAR Mug Collection Observe your preferences to receive relevant information about activities, information as well as more.