.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while supplying a crushing draft to chauffeurs hoping to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th chauffeur to earn a playoff location with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to make the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was actually heading to be just one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe mentioned. "We discussed it before the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our team executed all night long, I recognized our company would be in the mix." Our company implemented. And also our team were in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the reduced by six points while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 points. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be to be in a strict struggle for the ultimate playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the last two regular-season races." Our ideal had not been satisfactory-- as straightforward 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, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd successive week, a driver requiring a succeed to create the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the ethnicity 18th in the status and also 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, suggesting he had no other road to the playoffs except to win.But it was more truth that created this an exciting moment. He made a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is finalizing at the end of the time. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless touch, drives the crew's renowned No. 14 automobile that was very first driven through Tony Stewart." It's massive," Briscoe mentioned. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That is actually the auto I cheered for growing. I have actually observed that vehicle gain opportunity and over and over again, gain a champion."' I was sobbing'-- Chase Briscoe on gaining Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that performed somewhat fresher tires by the end, just couldn't get Briscoe as well as skipped the playoffs for the first time because 2012." Our company really did not have a lot speed there via a majority of the race," Busch said. "We were merely stuck in website traffic, as well as our experts weren't capable to rise via there. " Once we got out of bed there certainly, I seemed like those last three or four restarts, we were actually visiting have a shot managing in the top-5. However at that point our team took a crack at for the succeed and also simply could not create it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Below he resides in second. I resemble, 'You have actually come to be actually kidding me-- I have actually operated 300 some laps to reach the top, right now Kyle is mosting likely to swipe it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs got the two playoff spots for winless motorists as well as they each possessed some seconds to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex wound up making it through just 6 factors after getting in the nationality assured a spot if there was a regular champion. He wrecked on the 2nd tour of the nationality and completed 36th, certainly not recognizing if he will bring in the playoffs up until the end of the 2nd phase." This is unhappy," Truex stated prior to he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I only detest it for my group. ... They are entitled to far better. It's just an error." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was involved in a wreckage along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to continue and also made it through 12 aspects. If he had been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still would possess created it, but it will possess been actually just by a couple of placements." We simply acquired managed truly-- I would state grimy right certainly there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs stated. "That was actually undoubtedly closer than it needs to have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly bug throughout the entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was visiting either vomit or have an instance of diarrhea throughout the whole entire race. He wound up 10th, and along with Larson finishing 4th, beat Larson by one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline deserves 15 playoff factors (aspects a driver can use to evolve if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd spot costs 10. Larson, along with the best victories of any motorist this year, would certainly possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, that believes he recorded the pest coming from his kid, said it was awful he ever experienced in a race automobile." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] woke up Sunday with the exact same wishing it would certainly be gone again." I experienced really good basically completely up until the race. It just needs to possess been actually the rub out of [Turn] 2 or one thing. It simply actually, truly received negative due to the end of Phase 1. It simply stayed there the remainder of the technique." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season title even with overlooking the May ethnicity at Charlotte nc while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not merely that a person," Larson stated. "I might possess ended up at Michigan or completed at Iowa or even finished at Chicago and certainly not even been near today. I don't check out Indy as being actually the reason. That's simply component of my season. I wouldn't give up managing the Indy 500 for 5 incentive factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually invested years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Performance publication and also The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive a lot more from NASCAR Mug Set Observe your preferences to get info concerning games, headlines and also more.