.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him right into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while providing a squashing blow to motorists wanting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to get a playoff location with a win, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to make the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was actually heading to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe stated. "Our company discussed it just before the nationality today, this is the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company performed all evening long, I understood our company would remain in the mix." Our team implemented. As well as our experts resided in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the reduced through 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 factors. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be in a limited war for the ultimate playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the last two regular-season races." Our ideal had not been acceptable-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second successive week, a chauffeur needing a win to make the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered the race 18th in the standings as well as 114 points responsible for the playoff cutoff, meaning he possessed not one other course to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was more than that simple fact that made this an exciting moment. He earned an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually finalizing in the end of the season. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, drives the group's legendary No. 14 vehicle that was initial steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually large," Briscoe mentioned. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That is actually the auto I cheered for maturing. I have actually found that car gain time as well as over and over again, succeed a champion."' I was bursting into tears'-- Pursuit Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, that was on somewhat fresher tires by the end, just could not find Briscoe and missed the playoffs for the first time because 2012." Our experts didn't have a lot rate there through a large number of the race," Busch claimed. "We were actually just mired in web traffic, as well as our experts weren't able to stand up with there. " Once our company got up certainly there, I believed that those final 3 or even 4 restarts, we were actually mosting likely to take a crack at managing in the top-5. However at that point our team had a shot for the succeed as well as merely could not create it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him well-maintained." Here he resides in second. I feel like, 'You've reached be kidding me-- I've worked 300 some laps to get to the top, right now Kyle is actually heading to swipe it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made both playoff locations for winless drivers and they each had some minutes to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex wound up creating it through merely six points after going into the ethnicity ensured an area if there was actually a replay victor. He wrecked on the 2nd tour of the ethnicity and also completed 36th, not recognizing if he would bring in the playoffs up until the end of the second phase." This is actually unhappy," Truex claimed prior to he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I just dislike it for my crew. ... They are entitled to far better. It's simply a blunder." NASCAR Mug Set: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loose while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to proceed and also made the cut through 12 points. If he had been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still would certainly have created it, however it will have been merely through a couple of positions." Our company simply received managed really-- I would certainly point out dirty right certainly there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs stated. "That was actually most definitely closer than it should possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a stomach pest throughout the entire race, sensation as if he was going to either regurgitate or even have a situation of diarrhea throughout the entire ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and along with Larson completing fourth, beat Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season title deserves 15 playoff aspects (aspects a vehicle driver may utilize to progress if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd area is worth 10. Larson, with the most victories of any kind of motorist this year, would possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, that believes he caught the insect from his child, mentioned it was actually awful he ever before really felt in a nationality vehicle." It was horrendous on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] woke up Sunday with the same wishing it would be actually gone again." I really felt excellent essentially completely up till the race. It simply needs to have been the rub out of [Turn] 2 or something. It just really, truly got poor by the end of Phase 1. It merely remained there the remainder of the technique." Larson virtually gained the regular-season headline even with missing out on the May nationality at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not just that one," Larson claimed. "I might possess completed at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and also not also been actually shut today. I don't check out Indy as being the main reason why. That is actually only portion of my period. I definitely would not surrender managing the Indy five hundred for five bonus offer aspects." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually invested many years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Performance magazine and also The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Collection Observe your preferences to acquire info about games, information and even more.