.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him into the NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs while supplying a squashing blow to drivers hoping to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th motorist to get a playoff location along with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I understood it was heading to be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe said. "Our team discussed it prior to the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our experts executed all evening long, I understood our team will be in the mix." We executed. And also we remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by 6 factors while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 factors. For a lot of the ethnicity, Buescher and Wallace seemed to become in a tight fight for the ultimate playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that also went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the final pair of regular-season nationalities." Our greatest had not been adequate-- as straightforward as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and 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 successive week, a motorist requiring a gain to create the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the standings as well as 114 aspects responsible for the playoff deadline, implying he possessed not one other path to the playoffs except to win.But it was moreover reality that made this an exciting minute. He made an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually shutting in the end of the time. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, steers the staff's legendary No. 14 vehicle that was actually first driven through Tony Stewart." It's large," Briscoe mentioned. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That is actually the car I cheered for growing. I have actually found that automobile succeed time and over and over again, succeed a champion."' I was shedding tears'-- Hunt Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, that performed slightly fresher tires at the end, only could not get Briscoe and skipped the playoffs for the first time given that 2012." Our experts really did not have much speed there with a majority of the race," Busch mentioned. "Our company were actually merely stuck in web traffic, and also our experts weren't able to get up with there. " But once our team rose there, I believed that those final 3 or 4 restarts, our company were actually mosting likely to take a crack at operating in the top-5. However after that we had a shot for the gain and also only could not make it up there." Briscoe thanked Busch for competing him well-maintained." Here he remains in 2nd. I feel like, 'You've come to be actually joking me-- I have actually functioned 300 some tours to reach the lead, now Kyle is actually going to steal it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs got both playoff areas for winless chauffeurs as well as they each had some moments to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex found yourself creating it by simply 6 aspects after getting in the race assured a place if there was a replay victor. He damaged on the 2nd lap of the ethnicity as well as ended up 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would create the playoffs till completion of the second stage." This is difficult," Truex stated before he knew whether he made the playoffs. "I only dislike it for my group. ... They are entitled to much better. It's simply a blunder." NASCAR Mug Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with an accident with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry got loosened while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to carry on and made the cut by 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will possess created it, yet it would have been only by a number of placements." Our company simply obtained operated definitely-- I will mention filthy right there certainly-- that was actually regrettable," Gibbs pointed out. "That was absolutely closer than it should have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a tummy insect throughout the whole entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was actually mosting likely to either regurgitate or even possess a case of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire race. He ended up 10th, as well as with Larson completing fourth, exhausted Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season title costs 15 playoff factors (factors a motorist can make use of to evolve if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while second spot costs 10. Larson, along with the absolute most wins of any kind of chauffeur this year, will have gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he caught the insect from his little one, claimed it was actually the worst he ever before felt in an ethnicity car." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick mentioned." [I] got out of bed Sunday along with the very same wishing it will be gone again." I experienced great virtually completely up until the ethnicity. It simply must have been the bump off of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It simply definitely, definitely received poor by the end of Stage 1. It simply remained there the remainder of the means." Larson almost succeeded the regular-season title even with missing out on the May nationality at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not just that people," Larson stated. "I can have completed at Michigan or finished at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and also certainly not even been actually near today. I don't look at Indy as being the main reason why. That's merely aspect of my period. I wouldn't quit managing the Indy five hundred for 5 perk factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested years dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and also The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive extra from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your favorites to obtain information concerning games, news and also additional.