.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him in to the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while delivering a crushing blow to drivers wishing to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th motorist to make a playoff area with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to make the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was visiting be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe pointed out. "Our team referred to it prior to the race today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our company performed all evening long, I knew our experts would certainly remain in the mix." Our company executed. And our experts were in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by 6 factors while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 points. For much of the nationality, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be to be in a limited fight for the final playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the ultimate 2 regular-season nationalities." Our best wasn't adequate-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and 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, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second consecutive week, a driver requiring a win to create the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the race 18th in the status and also 114 factors responsible for the playoff cutoff, suggesting he possessed not one other path to the playoffs other than to win.But it was actually moreover truth that created this a thrilling moment. He got a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is actually shutting at the end of the period. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless streak, steers the group's renowned No. 14 automobile that was 1st driven through Tony Stewart." It's big," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the cars and truck I cheered for maturing. I have actually found that automobile gain opportunity and over and over again, succeed a championship."' I was wailing'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, that was on somewhat fresher tires in the end, just couldn't see Briscoe and missed out on the playoffs for the very first time because 2012." We didn't have much speed there via a large number of the competition," Busch stated. "We were actually merely mired in web traffic, as well as our team weren't capable to rise by means of there. " But once we rose certainly there, I thought that those final three or four restarts, our experts were visiting take a crack at running in the top-5. However at that point our team had a shot for the succeed and only could not make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him clean." Here he is in second. I feel like, 'You've got to be joking me-- I have actually worked 300 some laps to come to the lead, now Kyle is actually mosting likely to swipe it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and Gibbs gained the two playoff locations for winless motorists and also they both possessed some instants to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex ended up making it by just 6 factors after getting in the race guaranteed an area if there was a replay victor. He wrecked on the second lap of the ethnicity as well as finished 36th, not knowing if he would bring in the playoffs up until completion of the second phase." This is unhappy," Truex claimed prior to he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I simply despise it for my crew. ... They ought to have much better. It's only a mistake." NASCAR Cup Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was actually involved in a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry got loose while three-wide with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs managed to continue as well as made the cut by 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the race, he likely still would possess created it, however it would have been actually simply through a number of postures." We just got operated truly-- I would certainly mention dirty right certainly there-- that was unfortunate," Gibbs pointed out. "That was actually absolutely closer than it ought to have been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly pest throughout the entire nationality, sensation as if he was actually heading to either throw up or even have a scenario of diarrhea throughout the entire race. He ended up 10th, and along with Larson ending up fourth, beat Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season label deserves 15 playoff aspects (aspects a motorist can make use of to progress if he does not gain in the three-race playoff rounds) while second area costs 10. Larson, along with the most victories of any sort of driver this year, will possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he captured the insect coming from his little one, claimed it was the most awful he ever felt in a nationality cars and truck." It was horrible on Saturday," Reddick mentioned." [I] awakened Sunday with the same hoping it would be actually returned." I felt excellent pretty much all the way up until the race. It only needs to have been actually the bump off of [Switch] 2 or even one thing. It only actually, actually got negative due to the end of Phase 1. It merely kept there the rest of the method." Larson almost succeeded the regular-season headline in spite of missing the May race at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not merely that one," Larson claimed. "I could possibly have completed at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or even finished at Chicago and certainly not even been shut today. I do not look at Indy as being the reason. That's simply component of my period. I would not quit running the Indy five hundred for 5 perk aspects." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has invested many years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Performance journal and The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire extra coming from NASCAR Mug Series Follow your favorites to obtain info regarding activities, information and also more.