.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while delivering a squashing draft to chauffeurs planning to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th motorist to earn a playoff location along with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to create the 16-driver playoff area." I recognized it was actually visiting be one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe said. "Our team spoke about it prior to the race today, this is actually the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our team performed all evening long, I recognized our company would certainly reside in the mix." We implemented. And also our team remained in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher skipped the cut by six factors while Bubba Wallace skipped it by 27 points. For much of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to become in a tight battle for the ultimate playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that likewise went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the ultimate 2 regular-season races." Our finest had not been adequate-- as simple 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, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second consecutive full week, a driver requiring a succeed to bring in the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the race 18th in the status as well as 114 points behind the playoff deadline, implying he possessed not one other path to the playoffs except to win.But it was moreover simple fact that made this an exciting second. He made a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is finalizing in the end of the time. Briscoe, who popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the staff's legendary No. 14 car that was very first steered through Tony Stewart." It is actually significant," Briscoe mentioned. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the automobile I cheered for maturing. I have actually viewed that auto gain time as well as over and over again, succeed a championship."' I was shedding tears'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, that got on slightly fresher tires in the end, merely could not get Briscoe as well as skipped the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our experts really did not possess a lot velocity there with a large number of the race," Busch claimed. "Our team were just bogged down in website traffic, as well as our experts weren't capable to get up via there. " Once our company stood up there certainly, I thought that those final three or four restarts, we were actually visiting have a shot operating in the top-5. However after that we took a crack at for the win and only could not make it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him clean." Listed here he resides in 2nd. I feel like, 'You have actually got to be actually joking me-- I've worked 300 some laps to reach the lead, now Kyle is actually heading to swipe it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and Gibbs made the 2 playoff areas for winless motorists and they each had some seconds to sweat as both were actually associated with wrecks.Truex ended up making it by just six points after getting into the race promised a place if there was actually a repeat champion. He wrecked on the 2nd tour of the nationality as well as finished 36th, certainly not knowing if he would certainly create the playoffs until completion of the second stage." This is unpleasant," Truex said just before he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I simply dislike it for my group. ... They are entitled to better. It's simply an error." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was actually involved in a wreck along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry received loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to proceed and also made the cut through 12 factors. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still will possess produced it, however it would possess been merely by a couple of postures." Our experts only acquired managed truly-- I would certainly mention dirty right there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs pointed out. "That was actually most definitely closer than it needs to possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a belly bug throughout the whole entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was actually mosting likely to either vomit or even have a case of diarrhea throughout the entire nationality. He wound up 10th, as well as with Larson ending up 4th, beat Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff factors (aspects a motorist can easily utilize to evolve if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd place deserves 10. Larson, along with one of the most victories of any vehicle driver this year, will possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he captured the pest coming from his little one, stated it was awful he ever before really felt in a race automobile." It was horrible on Sunday," Reddick pointed out." [I] awakened Sunday along with the exact same hoping it will be actually gone again." I really felt good virtually completely up until the ethnicity. It just should possess been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or something. It only truly, truly received negative by the end of Phase 1. It merely kept there the remainder of the method." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season label despite skipping the May race at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not just that a person," Larson said. "I could possibly possess ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or ended up at Chicago as well as not even been actually near today. I don't examine Indy as being the reason why. That's just component of my time. I would not quit managing the Indy 500 for 5 bonus aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested many years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Scene journal as well as The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire much more from NASCAR Cup Set Follow your faves to obtain details concerning video games, information and more.