.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while supplying a pulverizing blow to vehicle drivers intending to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th vehicle driver to gain a playoff spot along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I understood it was going to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe mentioned. "We talked about it just before the ethnicity today, this is the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company implemented all evening long, I recognized our experts will reside in the mix." Our experts performed. And also our team resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut 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 limited fight for the final playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that additionally went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the last 2 regular-season races." Our absolute best had not been adequate-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, 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 2nd successive week, a motorist needing to have a win to create the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the nationality 18th in the status and 114 points responsible for the playoff cutoff, meaning he possessed nothing else path to the playoffs other than to win.But it was actually more than that reality that made this an electrifying instant. He earned an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually shutting at the end of the period. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, steers the staff's renowned No. 14 car that was actually first driven through Tony Stewart." It is actually huge," Briscoe pointed out. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the cars and truck I cheered for growing up. I've observed that auto gain opportunity and over and over again, win a championship."' I was bursting into tears'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, who performed a little fresher tires in the end, just could not get Briscoe as well as missed the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our team really did not possess a lot velocity there with a large number of the race," Busch claimed. "Our experts were merely bogged down in website traffic, as well as our company weren't capable to stand up by means of there. " Once we got up there, I felt like those final three or even four restarts, our company were actually visiting have a shot operating in the top-5. Yet after that our company had a shot for the win and also just couldn't create it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for dashing him clean." Here he is in second. I feel like, 'You have actually got to be actually kidding me-- I've worked 300 some laps to get to the top, right now Kyle is going to swipe it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made the 2 playoff areas for winless motorists and they both had some minutes to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex ended up making it through simply 6 aspects after getting in the ethnicity guaranteed a location if there was a regular champion. He ravaged on the second lap of the ethnicity as well as ended up 36th, not recognizing if he would make the playoffs until the end of the 2nd phase." This is awful," Truex stated just before he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I simply detest it for my team. ... They deserve far better. It's only a mistake." NASCAR Mug Series: Cook Out Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was involved in a wreckage along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs managed to continue as well as made the cut through 12 factors. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would have made it, yet it will possess been just through a couple of settings." Our experts simply obtained ran definitely-- I would say unclean right certainly there-- that was actually unlucky," Gibbs mentioned. "That was actually most definitely closer than it must have been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly bug throughout the whole race, feeling as if he was going to either vomit or even possess a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire race. He ended up 10th, and also along with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season label costs 15 playoff aspects (points a driver can make use of to evolve if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while second place costs 10. Larson, along with the best triumphes of any kind of motorist this year, would certainly possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he captured the bug from his kid, mentioned it was the most awful he ever before really felt in a nationality car." It was terrible on Sunday," Reddick pointed out." [I] awakened Sunday with the exact same hoping it will be gone again." I experienced excellent more or less completely up till the nationality. It only should have been actually the bump off of [Switch] 2 or one thing. It merely really, definitely obtained bad by the end of Phase 1. It just remained there the rest of the method." Larson virtually won the regular-season label even with missing the May race at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not simply that one," Larson stated. "I might possess ended up at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or finished at Chicago and not also been shut today. I do not check out Indy as being actually the reason. That's merely aspect of my time. I definitely would not quit managing the Indy 500 for five benefit factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has devoted years dealing with motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance publication and also The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive even more coming from NASCAR Cup Series Observe your favorites to get info concerning video games, news and additional.