.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while delivering a crushing blow to drivers hoping to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded 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 chauffeur to earn a playoff area with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was mosting likely to be among those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe mentioned. "Our experts discussed it just before the nationality today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we performed all night long, I knew our team would reside in the mix." Our experts executed. And also our company were in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced by six points while Bubba Wallace skipped it by 27 factors. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace appeared to become in a limited battle for the final playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who likewise went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the last pair of regular-season races." Our ideal had not been adequate-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd consecutive week, a motorist needing a gain to make the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the ethnicity 18th in the standings as well as 114 aspects responsible for the playoff deadline, implying he had not one other pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more than that truth that created this an exciting instant. He gained a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is closing in the end of the season. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, drives the team's famous No. 14 cars and truck that was actually first driven through Tony Stewart." It's massive," Briscoe stated. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That is actually the car I cheered for growing up. I've found that car succeed opportunity and also time and time again, gain a championship."' I was actually crying'-- Pursuit Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, who performed somewhat fresher tires in the end, just could not find Briscoe as well as overlooked the playoffs for the first time considering that 2012." We really did not have much rate there with a large number of the competition," Busch claimed. "Our company were actually merely snared in web traffic, as well as our company weren't able to get up by means of there. " But once we got out of bed certainly there, I believed that those final three or 4 restarts, our company were actually mosting likely to take a crack at running in the top-5. But after that our company took a crack at for the gain and also simply could not make it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for racing him well-maintained." Right here he is in second. I feel like, 'You have actually come to be actually joking me-- I've operated 300 some tours to get to the lead, now Kyle is actually heading to take it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and Gibbs gained the 2 playoff areas for winless motorists and they both had some moments to sweat as both were involved in wrecks.Truex wound up creating it through only six aspects after entering the race guaranteed a spot if there was a repeat victor. He damaged on the 2nd lap of the ethnicity and also completed 36th, certainly not knowing if he would bring in the playoffs up until the end of the 2nd stage." This is awful," Truex stated prior to he understood whether he made the playoffs. "I just despise it for my group. ... They are worthy of much better. It's simply a mistake." NASCAR Cup Collection: Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was associated with a wreck along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry got loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs was able to proceed and also made the cut by 12 factors. If he had actually been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still would certainly possess created it, however it would possess been actually only by a couple of positions." Our team only got managed really-- I would mention unclean right certainly there-- that was unfavorable," Gibbs claimed. "That was certainly closer than it must have been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a stomach insect throughout the whole nationality, emotion as if he was visiting either regurgitate or even possess a situation of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire race. He wound up 10th, as well as with Larson completing fourth, exhausted Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season title deserves 15 playoff points (factors a vehicle driver may use to progress if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff rounds) while second area is worth 10. Larson, with the absolute most triumphes of any driver this year, will possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he caught the bug coming from his kid, mentioned it was actually awful he ever before felt in a race auto." It was actually horrible on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] got up Sunday with the very same wishing it will be returned." I felt really good essentially completely up until the ethnicity. It merely has to have been the bump off of [Transform] 2 or something. It just truly, truly obtained bad by the end of Phase 1. It just stayed there the rest of the technique." Larson virtually succeeded the regular-season headline despite overlooking the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually not simply that one," Larson said. "I could possess ended up at Michigan or completed at Iowa or ended up at Chicago as well as not even been actually close today. I don't check out Indy as being the main reason why. That is actually merely portion of my period. I wouldn't quit managing the Indy 500 for five bonus points." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested many years covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene magazine and The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive more from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your favorites to receive relevant information regarding games, information and also even more.