.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that released him into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while providing a squashing draft to chauffeurs planning to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season ending as he led the final 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to gain a playoff spot along with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to make the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was actually going to be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe mentioned. "We discussed it prior to the race today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our company performed all night long, I recognized our company will remain in the mix." Our team implemented. And also our experts remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut by six factors while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 points. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be to be in a tight fight for the final playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that also went winless this year, came up short as he ended up second in the final 2 regular-season races." Our finest had not been acceptable-- as easy 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 also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd consecutive week, a chauffeur requiring a gain to create the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the race 18th in the standings and also 114 aspects responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he possessed no other path to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually more simple fact that made this a thrilling second. He made a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is closing at the end of the period. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless touch, steers the group's renowned No. 14 car that was actually first steered through Tony Stewart." It's substantial," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the auto I cheered for maturing. I have actually seen that car succeed time and also over and over again, succeed a champion."' I was weeping'-- Chase Briscoe on succeeding Southern five hundred Busch, who was on a little fresher tires by the end, just couldn't find Briscoe and missed out on the playoffs for the very first time given that 2012." Our experts failed to possess a lot rate there through a majority of the competition," Busch said. "We were actually simply bogged down in website traffic, as well as we weren't capable to stand up with there. " But once our company got out of bed there, I believed that those final three or four restarts, our experts were heading to take a crack at running in the top-5. But then our experts took a crack at for the gain as well as merely could not create it apex." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him tidy." Right here he remains in second. I feel like, 'You have actually reached be actually kidding me-- I have actually functioned 300 some laps to get to the top, now Kyle is actually visiting take it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs got both playoff areas for winless chauffeurs and also they each had some moments to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself making it by merely 6 factors after getting in the race promised a place if there was a replay winner. He damaged on the 2nd lap of the nationality and also ended up 36th, certainly not knowing if he would make the playoffs until completion of the 2nd stage." This is awful," Truex mentioned prior to he recognized whether he brought in the playoffs. "I merely loathe it for my team. ... They are worthy of much better. It is actually only a blunder." NASCAR Mug Set: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with a wreckage with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry got loose while three-wide with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to carry on and made it through 12 aspects. If he had actually been knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would have created it, but it would possess been actually simply through a number of positions." We only obtained operated truly-- I would say dirty right there-- that was unfortunate," Gibbs claimed. "That was certainly closer than it should possess been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly pest throughout the whole entire nationality, feeling as if he was mosting likely to either vomit or have a case of diarrhea throughout the whole race. He ended up 10th, and along with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff factors (aspects a chauffeur may utilize to evolve if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd spot costs 10. Larson, along with the best wins of any sort of vehicle driver this year, would certainly have gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he caught the pest from his little one, stated it was awful he ever before really felt in a race cars and truck." It was terrible on Sunday," Reddick mentioned." [I] woke up Sunday with the exact same wishing it will be returned." I felt great more or less completely up till the ethnicity. It merely should possess been the bump off of [Transform] 2 or something. It simply truly, really acquired negative by the end of Phase 1. It simply stayed there the rest of the method." Larson virtually succeeded the regular-season headline even with skipping the May race at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually certainly not merely that," Larson stated. "I could possibly possess ended up at Michigan or finished at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and not also been actually close today. I do not examine Indy as being actually the reason. That's just part of my time. I would not quit running the Indy 500 for 5 bonus offer factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has spent years covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Performance journal and The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get extra coming from NASCAR Cup Series Observe your favorites to obtain relevant information regarding games, information as well as more.