.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him right into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while providing a crushing draft to drivers intending to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th motorist to gain a playoff area along with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to make the 16-driver playoff area." I recognized it was mosting likely to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe stated. "We referred to it before the ethnicity today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If we carried out all evening long, I recognized our team will reside in the mix." Our experts executed. As well as our team remained in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut through 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 aspects. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to become in a strict war for the ultimate playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that also went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the ultimate two regular-season races." Our best had not been sufficient-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd consecutive full week, a driver needing a succeed to bring in the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the ethnicity 18th in the status and 114 factors behind the playoff cutoff, meaning he had nothing else road to the playoffs except to win.But it was more than that truth that created this an exciting instant. He earned a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is shutting by the end of the time. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless streak, drives the staff's renowned No. 14 auto that was actually 1st steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually large," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the car I cheered for growing up. I've viewed that auto gain time and time and time again, succeed a championship."' I was actually crying'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, who got on a little fresher tires by the end, just couldn't see Briscoe and missed the playoffs for the first time given that 2012." Our team didn't possess a lot velocity there through a majority of the race," Busch pointed out. "We were actually merely snared in visitor traffic, and we weren't able to rise via there. " Once we rose certainly there, I felt like those last 3 or 4 restarts, our experts were actually going to have a shot managing in the top-5. But after that our company took a crack at for the win and also merely couldn't create it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him tidy." Listed here he remains in 2nd. I feel like, 'You have actually got to be joking me-- I've functioned 300 some laps to get to the top, today Kyle is actually going to steal it coming from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs gained the two playoff locations for winless vehicle drivers and also they each possessed some instants to sweat as both were actually associated with wrecks.Truex ended up creating it through merely 6 factors after getting into the nationality promised a location if there was actually a regular winner. He trashed on the 2nd tour of the nationality and also finished 36th, certainly not understanding if he would certainly bring in the playoffs till the end of the second phase." This is miserable," Truex claimed prior to he understood whether he created the playoffs. "I simply detest it for my team. ... They deserve much better. It's just a blunder." NASCAR Mug Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was involved in an accident along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to proceed and made the cut by 12 aspects. If he had been knocked out of the race, he likely still would certainly possess created it, however it would certainly have been simply through a number of settings." Our team simply got managed actually-- I would claim dirty right certainly there-- that was actually regrettable," Gibbs claimed. "That was definitely closer than it ought to have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach bug throughout the whole ethnicity, emotion as if he was actually visiting either throw up or even have a case of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire nationality. He wound up 10th, and also along with Larson finishing fourth, beat Larson by one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season label is worth 15 playoff factors (aspects a chauffeur may use to evolve if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while second location costs 10. Larson, along with the absolute most triumphes of any kind of vehicle driver this year, will possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he caught the bug from his child, claimed it was the worst he ever experienced in a race car." It was actually horrendous on Sunday," Reddick stated." [I] got up Sunday along with the exact same hoping it will be actually returned." I felt really good virtually right up till the ethnicity. It only must possess been the rub out of [Switch] 2 or even one thing. It merely definitely, really got poor due to the end of Stage 1. It only remained there the remainder of the method." Larson nearly won the regular-season title even with skipping the May nationality at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually certainly not just that a person," Larson said. "I might have finished at Michigan or completed at Iowa or ended up at Chicago as well as not even been actually close today. I don't examine Indy as being actually the reason why. That is actually only portion of my season. I would not give up operating the Indy 500 for 5 bonus points." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent years covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Collection Observe your favorites to get details concerning games, news as well as additional.