.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while supplying a pulverizing draft to vehicle drivers wanting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th motorist to earn a playoff spot along with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff field." I recognized it was actually heading to be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe mentioned. "Our company spoke about it just before the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we carried out all night long, I knew our team would certainly remain in the mix." Our experts implemented. And our team were in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced by six points while Bubba Wallace overlooked it through 27 points. For a lot of the ethnicity, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to become in a strict battle for the final 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 ultimate 2 regular-season races." Our best had not been satisfactory-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second consecutive week, a motorist needing a gain to make the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the race 18th in the standings and 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, suggesting he possessed nothing else path to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was more than that fact that created this an exciting instant. He got a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually finalizing at the end of the season. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the staff's well-known No. 14 car that was actually very first steered by Tony Stewart." It's significant," Briscoe mentioned. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the cars and truck I cheered for growing. I've found that automobile succeed opportunity as well as over and over again, gain a championship."' I was actually weeping'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Southern five hundred Busch, who was on slightly fresher tires at the end, only couldn't find Briscoe and also overlooked the playoffs for the first time because 2012." Our experts really did not possess much rate there through a large number of the race," Busch pointed out. "Our company were actually only snared in website traffic, as well as we weren't capable to rise by means of there. " Once our company got out of bed certainly there, I felt like those final three or even 4 restarts, we were actually heading to take a crack at running in the top-5. But at that point our company took a crack at for the gain and also only couldn't create it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for racing him well-maintained." Listed below he is in 2nd. I'm like, 'You have actually come to be actually kidding me-- I've functioned 300 some tours to reach the lead, today Kyle is heading to swipe it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made the 2 playoff places for winless chauffeurs and also they both possessed some moments to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex wound up creating it by simply six aspects after getting into the nationality assured a location if there was actually a regular victor. He ravaged on the 2nd tour of the ethnicity and completed 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would make the playoffs until the end of the second phase." This is actually miserable," Truex pointed out just before he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I just despise it for my group. ... They should have much better. It's only an error." NASCAR Mug Series: Cook Out Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was actually involved in a wreckage with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs was able to proceed and also made the cut through 12 aspects. If he had been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still would have created it, but it would certainly have been actually simply by a couple of positions." Our experts simply obtained ran really-- I would mention filthy right certainly there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was definitely closer than it must have been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a stomach pest throughout the whole race, feeling as if he was heading to either regurgitate or even possess a case of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire race. He wound up 10th, and along with Larson finishing 4th, beat Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label deserves 15 playoff factors (points a chauffeur may make use of to accelerate if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff rounds) while second area is worth 10. Larson, along with the best triumphes of any sort of vehicle driver this year, would have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he recorded the bug coming from his kid, claimed it was the most awful he ever experienced in a nationality automobile." It was actually awful on Sunday," Reddick claimed." [I] got out of bed Sunday along with the same hoping it will be gone again." I felt really good practically completely up till the ethnicity. It simply has to have been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It only definitely, actually received poor by the end of Stage 1. It merely stayed there the remainder of the method." Larson nearly won the regular-season label despite overlooking the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually certainly not only that one," Larson pointed out. "I could possibly possess ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and also not also been actually close today. I don't look at Indy as being actually the reason that. That's simply part of my time. I would not give up running the Indy five hundred for five bonus offer factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually devoted many years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain extra from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your faves to obtain information concerning activities, updates and even more.