.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while delivering a crushing draft to motorists wanting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season ending as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th chauffeur to make a playoff place with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was heading to be among those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe said. "Our team spoke about it before the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our company carried out all evening long, I understood we would reside in the mix." Our experts executed. And also our experts resided in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by six factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it through 27 points. For much of the race, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to be to become in a limited battle for the last playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the final two regular-season ethnicities." Our absolute best wasn't acceptable-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are 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 2nd successive week, a motorist needing a succeed to make the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the nationality 18th in the standings as well as 114 aspects responsible for the playoff cutoff, meaning he had no other road to the playoffs other than to win.But it was moreover fact that created this an electrifying instant. He earned a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is shutting in the end of the time. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless touch, drives the crew's famous No. 14 vehicle that was actually initial steered through Tony Stewart." It's massive," Briscoe pointed out. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That is actually the cars and truck I cheered for growing. I've viewed that automobile succeed opportunity and also over and over again, succeed a champion."' I was shedding tears'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, who was on slightly fresher tires by the end, simply couldn't catch Briscoe and also missed the playoffs for the first time since 2012." Our company failed to possess much velocity there with a large number of the competition," Busch said. "We were just snared in web traffic, as well as our team weren't able to get out of bed by means of there. " But once our team rose there, I felt like those last 3 or even four restarts, our team were mosting likely to have a shot running in the top-5. But after that our company took a crack at for the win and only could not make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for dashing him well-maintained." Here he resides in 2nd. I resemble, 'You've reached be joking me-- I have actually operated 300 some laps to get to the lead, today Kyle is visiting steal it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made both playoff areas for winless drivers and also they both possessed some minutes to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex ended up making it by only six factors after getting in the ethnicity promised an area if there was a replay winner. He damaged on the 2nd lap of the race and ended up 36th, certainly not knowing if he would bring in the playoffs up until the end of the second stage." This is unhappy," Truex pointed out before he understood whether he made the playoffs. "I simply loathe it for my staff. ... They deserve better. It's simply a mistake." NASCAR Mug Series: Cook Out Southern five hundred Features Gibbs was actually involved in a wreckage with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry received loosened while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs managed to continue and also made it through 12 aspects. If he had actually been knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would certainly possess created it, but it will possess been actually merely by a number of postures." Our company simply obtained managed definitely-- I would certainly state filthy right there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was actually definitely closer than it ought to have been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly bug throughout the entire nationality, emotion as if he was actually going to either regurgitate or even have a situation of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and with Larson ending up fourth, exhausted Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label costs 15 playoff aspects (aspects a vehicle driver can make use of to advance if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd location is worth 10. Larson, with one of the most victories of any motorist this year, would certainly have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he caught the bug from his youngster, claimed it was actually awful he ever before felt in a race vehicle." It was horrendous on Sunday," Reddick claimed." [I] awakened Sunday along with the exact same hoping it would be actually gone again." I really felt excellent virtually right up until the race. It only should possess been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It merely definitely, truly got bad by the end of Stage 1. It only kept there the rest of the way." Larson nearly won the regular-season headline in spite of missing out on the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not merely that a person," Larson stated. "I might possess completed at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or even finished at Chicago as well as certainly not also been actually near today. I do not consider Indy as being the reason. That is actually merely component of my period. I definitely would not surrender managing the Indy five hundred for five benefit points." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has devoted decades dealing with motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene journal and also The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain extra coming from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your faves to obtain info regarding games, headlines and also even more.