.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that released him into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while delivering a pulverizing draft to motorists intending to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th chauffeur to earn a playoff area with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was visiting be just one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe mentioned. "Our team referred to it just before the race today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our team executed all night long, I understood our company will reside in the mix." Our team performed. And also our experts resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced through six factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 points. For much of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to become in a tight fight for the last playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that additionally went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the ultimate 2 regular-season nationalities." Our best had not been acceptable-- as straightforward as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd successive week, a driver needing to have a succeed to make the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered the nationality 18th in the standings and 114 aspects responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he possessed nothing else path to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was more than that truth that created this an exhilarating second. He gained a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is closing by the end of the time. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, drives the team's legendary No. 14 automobile that was actually first driven by Tony Stewart." It's big," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That is actually the car I cheered for growing. I've seen that vehicle win opportunity and time and time again, succeed a championship."' I was actually wailing'-- Pursuit Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, who was on a little fresher tires at the end, simply could not see Briscoe as well as overlooked the playoffs for the very first time since 2012." We really did not possess much velocity there through a large number of the race," Busch said. "Our experts were actually just mired in traffic, and our experts weren't able to get out of bed through there. " But once our team stood up there, I seemed like those final 3 or four restarts, our company were actually going to have a shot running in the top-5. However after that our experts took a crack at for the gain and also simply could not create it up there." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him well-maintained." Right here he resides in 2nd. I resemble, 'You have actually reached be joking me-- I've functioned 300 some laps to come to the lead, today Kyle is actually going to swipe it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made the two playoff areas for winless chauffeurs as well as they each possessed some minutes to sweat as both were associated with wrecks.Truex found yourself creating it by just 6 points after going into the ethnicity assured a location if there was actually a regular champion. He ravaged on the 2nd tour of the ethnicity as well as ended up 36th, certainly not recognizing if he will bring in the playoffs up until the end of the second phase." This is unpleasant," Truex claimed before he recognized whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just detest it for my group. ... They are entitled to better. It's simply a blunder." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was actually involved in a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loose while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to proceed and made the cut by 12 aspects. If he had actually been actually knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will possess produced it, yet it would possess been actually merely through a number of positions." We simply received ran really-- I would mention dirty right there-- that was regrettable," Gibbs stated. "That was most definitely closer than it must have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy bug throughout the entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was mosting likely to either vomit or even have a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire ethnicity. He ended up 10th, as well as along with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff aspects (points a driver can make use of to progress if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while second spot costs 10. Larson, along with one of the most victories of any sort of motorist this year, would certainly possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he caught the insect from his little one, stated it was actually the worst he ever before really felt in an ethnicity automobile." It was actually awful on Sunday," Reddick mentioned." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the same hoping it would certainly be actually gone again." I really felt really good virtually all the way up until the nationality. It only has to possess been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or even something. It only truly, actually got poor due to the end of Phase 1. It only kept there the remainder of the technique." Larson almost succeeded the regular-season headline regardless of missing the May race at Charlotte while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not just that one," Larson stated. "I could have completed at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even completed at Chicago as well as not also been actually shut today. I don't examine Indy as being the reason why. That's only portion of my season. I would not lose hope running the Indy five hundred for five bonus points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has devoted decades covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene journal as well as The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Set Follow your preferences to get info concerning games, headlines as well as more.