.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe postponed Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him right into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while supplying a crushing draft to motorists wishing to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to earn a playoff location along with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to make the 16-driver playoff area." I understood it was actually heading to be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe mentioned. "We talked about it prior to the nationality today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our experts carried out all night long, I recognized our team would reside in the mix." Our company performed. And also we were in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut by 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 points. For much of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to be in a tight war for the final playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the ultimate two regular-season ethnicities." Our finest had not been sufficient-- 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 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 ending, where for the second consecutive week, a driver needing to have a succeed to bring in the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 factors behind the playoff cutoff, suggesting he possessed nothing else course to the playoffs except to win.But it was actually more simple fact that made this a thrilling second. He earned a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is closing at the end of the time. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless touch, steers the team's legendary No. 14 auto that was actually initial steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually big," Briscoe claimed. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the vehicle I cheered for growing. I have actually seen that automobile gain time and also over and over again, succeed a championship."' I was weeping'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Southern five hundred Busch, that was on somewhat fresher tires by the end, simply could not see Briscoe and overlooked the playoffs for the very first time because 2012." Our company didn't possess a lot velocity there through a large number of the race," Busch said. "Our team were actually simply mired in visitor traffic, and our experts weren't able to get up with there. " But once our experts rose there, I believed that those final 3 or 4 restarts, we were heading to have a shot operating in the top-5. However after that our experts took a crack at for the win as well as merely couldn't make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for competing him tidy." Right here he remains in second. I feel like, 'You have actually reached be kidding me-- I have actually operated 300 some laps to come to the top, right now Kyle is heading to swipe it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs earned the 2 playoff spots for winless chauffeurs and also they each had some seconds to sweat as both were actually associated with wrecks.Truex found yourself creating it by merely six aspects after going into the nationality promised a spot if there was actually a loyal victor. He trashed on the second tour of the race and finished 36th, certainly not understanding if he would bring in the playoffs till the end of the 2nd stage." This is actually unhappy," Truex mentioned before he knew whether he brought in the playoffs. "I simply detest it for my crew. ... They ought to have much better. It's merely an oversight." NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was associated with a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry got loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to carry on and made the cut through 12 factors. If he had been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still would certainly possess made it, yet it would have been simply by a number of positions." Our experts just obtained managed truly-- I would state unclean right certainly there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs claimed. "That was most definitely closer than it must have been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a tummy pest throughout the whole entire ethnicity, sensation as if he was visiting either vomit or even have an instance of diarrhea throughout the entire race. He wound up 10th, and also with Larson completing 4th, exhausted Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff points (points a motorist may make use of to advance if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while second area is worth 10. Larson, with one of the most success of any type of motorist this year, would certainly have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he captured the bug from his youngster, said it was actually the worst he ever really felt in a nationality vehicle." It was actually horrendous on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] got up Sunday along with the exact same hoping it would certainly be returned." I felt good pretty much completely up till the race. It just must have been actually the bump off of [Transform] 2 or something. It just definitely, definitely received bad by the end of Stage 1. It merely remained there the remainder of the way." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season label regardless of skipping the May ethnicity at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually not simply that one," Larson mentioned. "I could possibly have finished at Michigan or finished at Iowa or finished at Chicago as well as certainly not even been close today. I do not examine Indy as being actually the reason why. That's just part of my season. I definitely would not lose hope managing the Indy 500 for five incentive aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has devoted decades dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Performance magazine and The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Collection Observe your preferences to get details regarding activities, headlines as well as even more.