.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while delivering a squashing draft to drivers wishing to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th chauffeur to make a playoff location with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to make the 16-driver playoff area." I recognized it was mosting likely to be just one of those do-or-die moments," Briscoe claimed. "We talked about it before the race today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If we implemented all evening long, I recognized our team will remain in the mix." Our company carried out. And our experts were in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 factors. For much of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to be in a strict fight for the final playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who likewise went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the last 2 regular-season races." Our greatest had not been good enough-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, 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 finale, where for the 2nd consecutive full week, a vehicle driver needing to have a win to create the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 factors responsible for the playoff deadline, meaning he had not one other road to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually more than that simple fact that created this an exhilarating moment. He got a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually closing in the end of the time. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless touch, drives the staff's well-known No. 14 cars and truck that was actually 1st steered through Tony Stewart." It is actually large," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That is actually the automobile I cheered for growing. I have actually seen that cars and truck win opportunity and also time and time again, succeed a championship."' I was actually sobbing'-- Chase Briscoe on gaining Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, who was on somewhat fresher tires in the end, merely couldn't get Briscoe and skipped the playoffs for the first time since 2012." Our experts failed to have much rate there via a majority of the race," Busch pointed out. "Our team were merely snared in visitor traffic, and our company weren't able to rise through there. " But once our company got up there certainly, I thought that those final three or even 4 restarts, our company were actually heading to take a crack at managing in the top-5. But at that point we had a shot for the gain and also merely could not create it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him clean." Here he resides in second. I'm like, 'You've got to be kidding me-- I have actually functioned 300 some tours to get to the lead, right now Kyle is going to steal it coming from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made both playoff places for winless motorists and they both had some minutes to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex ended up making it by only six factors after going into the ethnicity ensured a location if there was a replay victor. He trashed on the 2nd lap of the nationality and completed 36th, not recognizing if he would make the playoffs up until completion of the second stage." This is actually awful," Truex claimed just before he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I merely detest it for my crew. ... They are worthy of much better. It is actually simply an error." NASCAR Mug Collection: Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was associated with a wreck with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to carry on as well as made it through 12 aspects. If he had been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still will have produced it, however it would certainly possess been just through a couple of positions." We simply got operated actually-- I would state dirty right there-- that was actually regrettable," Gibbs said. "That was actually absolutely closer than it needs to possess been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly insect throughout the whole entire ethnicity, emotion as if he was going to either throw up or have a scenario of diarrhea throughout the entire ethnicity. He wound up 10th, as well as with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff factors (points a driver can make use of to progress if he does not win in the three-race playoff rounds) while second place is worth 10. Larson, along with the absolute most triumphes of any sort of driver this year, will possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he recorded the bug from his little one, claimed it was the worst he ever before really felt in a nationality vehicle." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the exact same hoping it would be actually returned." I felt really good practically all the way up till the nationality. It merely should possess been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It only actually, truly got negative due to the end of Stage 1. It only kept there the rest of the means." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season label regardless of missing the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not simply that a person," Larson stated. "I might possess ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and also not also been near today. I do not take a look at Indy as being actually the main reason why. That's only portion of my season. I wouldn't surrender operating the Indy five hundred for five reward points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested many years dealing with motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene publication as well as The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain even more from NASCAR Cup Collection Observe your faves to acquire information concerning games, headlines and also even more.