.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him right into the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while providing a pulverizing draft to vehicle drivers planning to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th driver to gain a playoff place along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was actually visiting be among those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe pointed out. "Our experts discussed it just before the nationality today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we executed all evening long, I understood our team will be in the mix." Our team carried out. And also we resided in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed the cut by six aspects while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 points. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be to be in a strict war for the final playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the last 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our greatest wasn't sufficient-- 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, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd successive full week, a vehicle driver needing a succeed to create the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the standings and 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, indicating he possessed nothing else pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was actually more than that simple fact that created this an electrifying second. He earned a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is finalizing at the end of the season. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, drives the group's well-known No. 14 automobile that was initial steered through Tony Stewart." It's large," Briscoe said. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the vehicle I cheered for growing up. I've viewed that auto succeed opportunity as well as time and time again, succeed a champion."' I was actually wailing'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Southern five hundred Busch, that performed somewhat fresher tires at the end, just could not catch Briscoe and skipped the playoffs for the first time due to the fact that 2012." Our team failed to have a lot speed there by means of a large number of the race," Busch mentioned. "Our experts were actually just bogged down in web traffic, and also our experts weren't able to get up via there. " Once our company got up there certainly, I felt like those last 3 or even 4 restarts, our experts were actually heading to have a shot operating in the top-5. Yet then we had a shot for the win and merely could not create it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him tidy." Listed below he remains in 2nd. I resemble, 'You have actually reached be actually joking me-- I have actually operated 300 some laps to come to the top, right now Kyle is actually mosting likely to take it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and Gibbs made the 2 playoff places for winless vehicle drivers and also they each possessed some instants to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex ended up creating it by just 6 factors after entering the race guaranteed an area if there was actually a regular champion. He wrecked on the 2nd lap of the ethnicity and also finished 36th, not recognizing if he would make the playoffs up until the end of the 2nd stage." This is awful," Truex mentioned just before he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just despise it for my team. ... They are entitled to better. It's merely an oversight." NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was actually associated with an accident with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to continue and also made it through 12 points. If he had actually been knocked out of the race, he likely still will possess made it, but it would certainly possess been just by a couple of placements." Our experts simply received ran definitely-- I would certainly claim dirty right certainly there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs said. "That was actually absolutely closer than it must possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach insect throughout the whole nationality, feeling as if he was actually visiting either regurgitate or even have a situation of diarrhea throughout the whole nationality. He ended up 10th, and also with Larson ending up fourth, exhausted Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season title deserves 15 playoff points (factors a motorist may utilize to accelerate if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd spot costs 10. Larson, along with one of the most success of any type of vehicle driver this year, would have gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he caught the bug coming from his kid, mentioned it was the most awful he ever before experienced in a nationality car." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick mentioned." [I] awakened Sunday with the very same hoping it would certainly be gone again." I experienced really good essentially completely up till the nationality. It simply has to have been the bump off of [Transform] 2 or even something. It only really, truly got negative due to the end of Phase 1. It merely remained there the remainder of the way." Larson virtually gained the regular-season title even with missing out on the May race at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not just that one," Larson stated. "I can have completed at Michigan or completed at Iowa or completed at Chicago and not also been actually near today. I do not look at Indy as being the reason. That is actually just portion of my period. I definitely would not give up running the Indy five hundred for 5 incentive aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually devoted years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Performance publication and The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive much more coming from NASCAR Cup Set Observe your faves to get information about games, information and more.