.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him in to the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while supplying a pulverizing blow to chauffeurs hoping to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season ending as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th motorist to make a playoff place with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I understood it was actually going to be among those do-or-die instants," Briscoe mentioned. "Our team talked about it just before the race today, this is actually the final bullet in the chamber. ... If we executed all night long, I recognized our team would certainly reside in the mix." Our team performed. As well as our experts were in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the reduced by 6 points while Bubba Wallace skipped it by 27 factors. For a lot of the race, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to be in a tight struggle for the last playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that additionally went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the ultimate 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our ideal wasn't adequate-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are actually 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 full week, a vehicle driver needing to have a succeed to bring in the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered the ethnicity 18th in the standings as well as 114 factors responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he possessed no other pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more truth that created this a thrilling minute. He gained a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is shutting in the end of the season. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, steers the staff's well-known No. 14 car that was actually very first steered through Tony Stewart." It is actually significant," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That's the auto I cheered for growing up. I have actually found that vehicle gain opportunity and also over and over again, win a championship."' I was weeping'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, that was on somewhat fresher tires in the end, just could not see Briscoe and missed out on the playoffs for the very first time because 2012." Our experts failed to have much velocity there by means of a large number of the race," Busch pointed out. "Our company were actually simply mired in website traffic, as well as our experts weren't capable to stand up by means of there. " Once our company got out of bed there, I believed that those final three or 4 restarts, we were visiting take a crack at operating in the top-5. But at that point our company had a shot for the succeed and just could not make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for dashing him tidy." Here he resides in second. I'm like, 'You have actually reached be joking me-- I've functioned 300 some laps to get to the top, now Kyle is going to swipe it coming from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs gained the 2 playoff areas for winless vehicle drivers as well as they each had some instants to sweat as both were actually associated with wrecks.Truex wound up making it by just six factors after going into the nationality ensured a place if there was actually a regular winner. He ravaged on the 2nd lap of the ethnicity and finished 36th, certainly not recognizing if he will create the playoffs until completion of the 2nd stage." This is actually awful," Truex stated prior to he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I simply despise it for my group. ... They are entitled to better. It is actually only an oversight." NASCAR Cup Series: Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to proceed as well as made it by 12 factors. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still will possess created it, but it will have been just by a number of settings." Our team merely got managed truly-- I would claim unclean right certainly there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs claimed. "That was most definitely closer than it must possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach pest throughout the entire ethnicity, sensation as if he was heading to either throw up or have a case of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire nationality. He wound up 10th, and also along with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson by one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season label is worth 15 playoff points (aspects a driver can use to advance if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd place is worth 10. Larson, along with the best victories of any type of driver this year, would certainly possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he caught the insect coming from his kid, mentioned it was the worst he ever experienced in an ethnicity cars and truck." It was actually terrible on Sunday," Reddick pointed out." [I] awakened Sunday along with the same wishing it will be actually gone again." I felt really good virtually completely up until the race. It just must have been the polish off of [Turn] 2 or something. It just truly, definitely obtained negative by the end of Stage 1. It simply stayed there the remainder of the means." Larson almost won the regular-season title in spite of missing out on the May race at Charlotte nc while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not merely that one," Larson claimed. "I can possess completed at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and not even been near today. I don't examine Indy as being the reason that. That is actually simply aspect of my period. I would not surrender managing the Indy five hundred for 5 incentive aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually spent years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene magazine and also The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain even more from NASCAR Cup Set Follow your favorites to receive information about activities, information as well as even more.