.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him right into the NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs while supplying a pulverizing draft to vehicle drivers hoping to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to make a playoff spot with a win, 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 visiting be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe claimed. "We discussed it prior to the nationality today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our team implemented all evening long, I recognized we would reside in the mix." We performed. And also our team remained in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced through six points while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 factors. For much of the nationality, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be to be in a tight struggle for the ultimate playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that additionally went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the final 2 regular-season races." Our greatest wasn't good enough-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, 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 second consecutive week, a driver needing to have a succeed to bring in the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 aspects responsible for the playoff deadline, meaning he had nothing else road to the playoffs except to win.But it was actually more truth that created this an exciting instant. He earned a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is shutting in the end of the period. Briscoe, who popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the staff's renowned No. 14 car that was 1st driven through Tony Stewart." It's huge," Briscoe stated. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That is actually the cars and truck I cheered for maturing. I've found that car win opportunity as well as time and time again, succeed a champion."' I was crying'-- Chase Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, who performed somewhat fresher tires by the end, simply couldn't catch Briscoe as well as overlooked the playoffs for the first time because 2012." We didn't have much rate there through a majority of the competition," Busch stated. "Our team were actually simply snared in visitor traffic, as well as we weren't able to rise via there. " Once our experts got up certainly there, I believed that those last three or even four restarts, we were actually heading to take a crack at operating in the top-5. But at that point our experts had a shot for the win as well as merely could not create it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for racing him clean." Right here he is in 2nd. I resemble, 'You have actually come to be kidding me-- I have actually functioned 300 some laps to reach the top, today Kyle is actually heading to take it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made both playoff areas for winless chauffeurs and also they each possessed some moments to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex ended up creating it through simply six points after getting into the nationality assured a location if there was a repeat champion. He trashed on the second tour of the ethnicity as well as ended up 36th, not knowing if he would create the playoffs till the end of the 2nd phase." This is unhappy," Truex said just before he understood whether he created the playoffs. "I only hate it for my group. ... They are entitled to better. It's just a mistake." NASCAR Cup Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was actually associated with an accident along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loosened while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to continue and also made it by 12 aspects. If he had been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still would certainly have made it, but it would certainly possess been actually simply by a number of placements." We merely acquired managed definitely-- I would claim unclean right there-- that was unlucky," Gibbs pointed out. "That was absolutely closer than it needs to possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly bug throughout the entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was actually mosting likely to either throw up or even have an instance of diarrhea throughout the whole entire race. He ended up 10th, and also with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season label costs 15 playoff points (factors a driver may utilize to advance if he does not gain in the three-race playoff rounds) while second spot costs 10. Larson, along with the most wins of any sort of driver this year, will have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he captured the insect from his child, stated it was the most awful he ever before experienced in a race car." It was horrendous on Saturday," Reddick said." [I] got up Sunday with the exact same hoping it will be actually gone again." I experienced excellent pretty much right up till the race. It simply needs to possess been the rub out of [Turn] 2 or even something. It simply definitely, actually got poor by the end of Stage 1. It merely remained there the rest of the technique." Larson almost gained the regular-season headline even with skipping the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not only that one," Larson claimed. "I could possibly have ended up at Michigan or completed at Iowa or finished at Chicago as well as certainly not also been shut today. I do not look at Indy as being the reason why. That's only aspect of my time. I definitely would not surrender managing the Indy 500 for 5 reward factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually devoted many years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene journal as well as The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire much more from NASCAR Cup Set Observe your preferences to acquire information about games, news as well as more.