.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that launched him in to the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while providing a crushing blow to chauffeurs expecting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season ending as he led the final 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th motorist to gain a playoff place with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to make the 16-driver playoff area." I knew it was visiting be one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe claimed. "Our team referred to it before the nationality today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company carried out all evening long, I understood we would remain in the mix." Our team implemented. And our experts remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by six aspects while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 aspects. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher and Wallace appeared to become in a tight battle for the ultimate playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that also went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the final two regular-season nationalities." Our finest had not been adequate-- as straightforward as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second consecutive full week, a motorist requiring a win to bring in the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the race 18th in the status and also 114 points behind the playoff deadline, suggesting he possessed no other pathway to the playoffs except to win.But it was actually more than that fact that made this a thrilling instant. He gained a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually finalizing at the end of the period. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless touch, steers the staff's renowned No. 14 automobile that was initial steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually big," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That is actually the vehicle I cheered for growing up. I have actually found that automobile succeed opportunity and over and over again, win a champion."' I was actually wailing'-- Pursuit Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, that got on a little fresher tires in the end, just could not catch Briscoe as well as overlooked the playoffs for the first time given that 2012." We didn't have a lot velocity there via a majority of the race," Busch stated. "We were simply snared in traffic, as well as we weren't able to stand up via there. " Once our experts got out of bed certainly there, I felt like those final three or four restarts, our team were going to have a shot operating in the top-5. However at that point our team had a shot for the succeed as well as only couldn't create it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Listed here he remains in second. I'm like, 'You have actually come to be actually kidding me-- I have actually worked 300 some laps to get to the top, now Kyle is actually heading to take it coming from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs earned the two playoff spots for winless chauffeurs and they each had some instants to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex wound up creating it by only 6 aspects after going into the nationality guaranteed a location if there was a replay victor. He wrecked on the 2nd lap of the nationality as well as ended up 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would certainly bring in the playoffs until completion of the 2nd phase." This is miserable," Truex said before he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I simply dislike it for my crew. ... They should have far better. It is actually simply a mistake." NASCAR Mug Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was actually involved in a wreckage with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry obtained loose while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs managed to proceed and also made it through 12 aspects. If he had actually been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would have made it, however it will have been actually only by a couple of postures." Our team just acquired ran actually-- I would certainly say unclean right certainly there-- that was unfortunate," Gibbs said. "That was actually absolutely closer than it needs to have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach pest throughout the whole entire ethnicity, emotion as if he was actually mosting likely to either vomit or even possess a situation of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire nationality. He wound up 10th, and with Larson finishing fourth, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label costs 15 playoff aspects (aspects a motorist can utilize to accelerate if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while second spot costs 10. Larson, with the most victories of any sort of driver this year, will have succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he caught the pest from his kid, claimed it was the most awful he ever really felt in a nationality auto." It was actually dreadful on Sunday," Reddick pointed out." [I] got out of bed Sunday along with the very same wishing it would be actually gone again." I experienced great essentially completely up until the nationality. It just should possess been actually the polish off of [Turn] 2 or one thing. It merely definitely, actually obtained bad by the end of Stage 1. It only remained there the rest of the method." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season label even with overlooking the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not simply that people," Larson stated. "I could possess ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or even finished at Chicago as well as not even been near today. I do not examine Indy as being the reason that. That is actually merely component of my time. I wouldn't lose hope managing the Indy 500 for 5 benefit aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested years dealing with motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene publication and The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain a lot more from NASCAR Mug Collection Follow your favorites to acquire relevant information concerning video games, headlines and also more.