.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while providing a pulverizing draft to chauffeurs expecting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in ending up being 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 drivers to make the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was mosting likely to be one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe said. "Our team talked about it just before the race today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our team carried out all evening long, I understood our experts would be in the mix." Our team carried out. And we resided in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut by 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace skipped it by 27 aspects. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to become in a tight fight for the final playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who also went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the ultimate pair of regular-season races." Our absolute best 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 champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd consecutive week, a driver requiring a win to bring in the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the ethnicity 18th in the status as well as 114 aspects responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he possessed nothing else road to the playoffs except to win.But it was more than that simple fact that created this an exciting minute. He gained a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is closing by the end of the season. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, drives the team's legendary No. 14 vehicle that was actually initial driven by Tony Stewart." It is actually massive," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That's the car I cheered for maturing. I've observed that vehicle gain time and over and over again, gain a champion."' I was actually bursting into tears'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, who got on somewhat fresher tires at the end, just could not catch Briscoe and missed the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our company really did not possess much speed there with a large number of the race," Busch mentioned. "We were actually just mired in visitor traffic, and our company weren't able to stand up via there. " Once our experts got up there, I believed that those last three or even 4 restarts, our experts were mosting likely to take a crack at managing in the top-5. However at that point we took a crack at for the win as well as just couldn't create it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him clean." Here he is in 2nd. I resemble, 'You've reached be kidding me-- I have actually functioned 300 some tours to come to the top, right now Kyle is heading 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 had some minutes to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself creating it by simply 6 aspects after going into the nationality guaranteed a spot if there was a regular victor. He damaged on the second tour of the ethnicity and ended up 36th, certainly not knowing if he will create the playoffs up until the end of the 2nd stage." This is unpleasant," Truex said just before he recognized whether he brought in the playoffs. "I merely hate it for my staff. ... They deserve far better. It is actually simply an oversight." NASCAR Mug Set: Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was involved in an accident along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry got loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to continue as well as made it by 12 factors. If he had actually been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still would certainly possess made it, but it would have been merely by a number of positions." Our experts merely obtained ran truly-- I will state filthy right certainly there-- that was unfortunate," Gibbs pointed out. "That was definitely closer than it should possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a tummy bug throughout the whole entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was heading to either regurgitate or have a situation of diarrhea throughout the whole entire nationality. He wound up 10th, as well as with Larson completing fourth, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff factors (points a motorist can easily utilize to accelerate if he doesn't gain in the three-race playoff rounds) while second area costs 10. Larson, along with the best wins of any kind of driver this year, would certainly possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he recorded the insect coming from his kid, mentioned it was actually the worst he ever before felt in a race automobile." It was actually horrible on Sunday," Reddick stated." [I] woke up Sunday along with the same wishing it would certainly be gone again." I felt good essentially right up until the ethnicity. It simply needs to have been actually the polish off of [Turn] 2 or even one thing. It just really, actually obtained bad by the end of Stage 1. It simply stayed there the remainder of the way." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season label in spite of skipping the May ethnicity at Charlotte nc while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not just that," Larson said. "I might have finished at Michigan or even completed at Iowa or ended up at Chicago as well as not also been actually close today. I don't look at Indy as being actually the main reason why. That is actually only aspect of my period. I definitely would not give up operating the Indy five hundred for five bonus offer factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested years dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Scene magazine and The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain extra from NASCAR Cup Series Observe your faves to obtain info about games, headlines and additional.