.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him in to the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while providing a crushing blow to chauffeurs planning to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season ending as he led the ultimate 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to get a playoff location 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 knew it was actually going to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe stated. "Our experts spoke about it before the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we performed all evening long, I recognized our team would reside in the mix." Our team carried out. And also our team remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut through 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace overlooked it through 27 points. For a lot of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be in a tight war for the ultimate playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that likewise went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the final two regular-season races." Our best wasn't acceptable-- as basic 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 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 finale, where for the 2nd consecutive full week, a vehicle driver needing to have a succeed to make the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, implying he possessed no other pathway to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was moreover truth that created this an exhilarating minute. He earned an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is actually closing in the end of the season. Briscoe, who popped a 93-race winless streak, steers the group's well-known No. 14 car that was very first steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually substantial," Briscoe said. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That is actually the automobile I cheered for maturing. I have actually seen that auto win time and also over and over again, win a champion."' I was crying'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, that performed a little fresher tires by the end, just could not get Briscoe as well as overlooked the playoffs for the very first time since 2012." Our team really did not possess a lot velocity there through a large number of the race," Busch claimed. "Our experts were actually merely bogged down in web traffic, as well as our team weren't able to rise through there. " Once we rose there certainly, I felt like those last 3 or four restarts, our team were visiting take a crack at running in the top-5. Yet then our company had a shot for the succeed and merely couldn't make it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Here he resides in second. I'm like, 'You've reached be actually joking me-- I have actually functioned 300 some laps to reach the lead, today Kyle is actually visiting take it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and Gibbs made the 2 playoff spots for winless vehicle drivers and they both had some minutes to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex wound up creating it by just six points after getting into the nationality guaranteed a spot if there was a replay winner. He damaged on the second tour of the ethnicity as well as completed 36th, certainly not understanding if he would create the playoffs up until the end of the 2nd phase." This is actually difficult," Truex said before he understood whether he made the playoffs. "I just detest it for my team. ... They deserve much better. It is actually just an oversight." NASCAR Mug Collection: Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was actually involved in an accident with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to continue as well as made the cut by 12 aspects. If he had actually been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would possess produced it, however it will possess been actually only through a number of settings." Our team merely obtained managed definitely-- I would certainly point out unclean right certainly there-- that was unlucky," Gibbs said. "That was actually absolutely closer than it must have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly pest throughout the whole entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was visiting either vomit or have a situation of diarrhea throughout the whole entire nationality. He ended up 10th, and with Larson ending up fourth, beat Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff factors (points a motorist may utilize to advance if he does not gain in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd area is worth 10. Larson, with the absolute most triumphes of any kind of vehicle driver this year, would certainly have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he recorded the pest coming from his child, said it was the most awful he ever really felt in a nationality car." It was actually dreadful on Sunday," Reddick said." [I] awakened Sunday along with the same hoping it would certainly be actually returned." I felt good basically all the way up till the race. It only should have been the rub out of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It merely really, actually obtained poor due to the end of Stage 1. It simply kept there the rest of the means." Larson almost won the regular-season title regardless of overlooking the May nationality at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not merely that," Larson stated. "I could have ended up at Michigan or completed at Iowa or ended up at Chicago as well as not also been close today. I don't check out Indy as being the reason. That's just aspect of my period. I definitely would not surrender operating the Indy 500 for five bonus aspects." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually spent decades dealing with motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Performance journal and The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire more from NASCAR Mug Series Observe your favorites to receive details concerning activities, updates as well as more.