.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that launched him into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while providing a squashing draft to vehicle drivers intending to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th driver to get a playoff spot along with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff field." I recognized it was heading to be one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe claimed. "Our company referred to it just before the ethnicity today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we executed all evening long, I knew our team would be in the mix." Our company executed. And our company were in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed the cut by six points while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 points. For much of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be in a limited battle for the last playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who likewise went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the final pair of regular-season races." Our best wasn't sufficient-- as straightforward as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, 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 full week, a motorist needing a gain to create the playoffs made it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 points responsible for the playoff deadline, implying he had not one other path to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was more simple fact that made this an exciting moment. He gained an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is shutting at the end of the period. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the team's legendary No. 14 auto that was actually 1st driven through Tony Stewart." It's huge," Briscoe stated. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the car I cheered for growing up. I have actually seen that cars and truck win opportunity as well as over and over again, win a champion."' I was actually crying'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, that got on somewhat fresher tires in the end, only couldn't find Briscoe and also missed out on the playoffs for the first time given that 2012." Our team failed to have a lot speed there through a large number of the race," Busch said. "We were simply mired in website traffic, and we weren't capable to stand up with there. " Once our experts got out of bed there certainly, I felt like those final three or even 4 restarts, our experts were heading to have a shot operating in the top-5. Yet at that point our team took a crack at for the gain as well as merely could not make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Here he is in second. I feel like, 'You have actually reached be actually kidding me-- I have actually worked 300 some tours to get to the top, today Kyle is actually visiting take it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs earned both playoff places for winless drivers and they each possessed some minutes to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex ended up creating it through merely six factors after getting in the race ensured a location if there was a repeat winner. He damaged on the 2nd lap of the ethnicity and also ended up 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would certainly bring in the playoffs till the end of the second stage." This is awful," Truex mentioned prior to he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I just despise it for my team. ... They are entitled to better. It is actually simply an oversight." NASCAR Cup Series: Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was associated with a wreck with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry got loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs managed to proceed and also made it through 12 points. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the race, he likely still would certainly possess produced it, however it would have been merely by a number of settings." Our company only got managed really-- I would certainly point out dirty right certainly there-- that was unlucky," Gibbs pointed out. "That was most definitely closer than it ought to possess been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy insect throughout the whole entire race, emotion as if he was heading to either regurgitate or even have a situation of diarrhea throughout the whole ethnicity. He ended up 10th, and with Larson completing 4th, exhausted Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season title deserves 15 playoff aspects (points a motorist can make use of to accelerate if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd spot deserves 10. Larson, with one of the most wins of any kind of vehicle driver this year, would certainly possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he caught the bug from his child, mentioned it was actually awful he ever before felt in a nationality auto." It was awful on Saturday," Reddick said." [I] got up Sunday along with the very same wishing it would be gone again." I really felt good more or less completely up until the nationality. It merely has to possess been the bump off of [Switch] 2 or even something. It only truly, truly obtained negative due to the end of Stage 1. It only remained there the remainder of the technique." Larson virtually won the regular-season title in spite of skipping the May ethnicity at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not only that one," Larson claimed. "I can have finished at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or even finished at Chicago and certainly not even been close today. I don't examine Indy as being the main reason why. That's simply part of my period. I wouldn't surrender running the Indy 500 for 5 incentive points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually devoted decades dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance journal and also The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Set Observe your faves to acquire relevant information about video games, headlines and even more.