.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe postponed Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that introduced him in to the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while providing a crushing draft to motorists wanting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th motorist to make a playoff area with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to create the 16-driver playoff area." I recognized it was mosting likely to be just one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe said. "Our company referred to it just before the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we implemented all night long, I knew our company will reside in the mix." We executed. And also our experts were in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut by six factors while Bubba Wallace skipped it by 27 aspects. For much of the race, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to be in a limited fight for the final playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that also went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the final two regular-season ethnicities." Our absolute best wasn't adequate-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as 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 Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second successive full week, a chauffeur needing to have a win to bring in the playoffs made it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the ethnicity 18th in the standings and 114 aspects behind the playoff cutoff, indicating he had no other road to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually more than that truth that made this an exciting second. He earned a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is closing at the end of the time. Briscoe, that snapped a 93-race winless streak, drives the crew's iconic No. 14 automobile that was actually 1st driven by Tony Stewart." It is actually large," Briscoe said. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the auto I cheered for growing up. I've viewed that vehicle win time and also time and time again, gain a championship."' I was actually weeping'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, that performed a little fresher tires at the end, only could not find Briscoe and also skipped the playoffs for the very first time due to the fact that 2012." We didn't have a lot rate there via a majority of the competition," Busch pointed out. "We were merely snared in traffic, and our team weren't capable to stand up with there. " Once our company rose certainly there, I felt like those last three or 4 restarts, we were actually going to have a shot running in the top-5. Yet after that our company had a shot for the gain and also simply could not make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Listed here he resides in 2nd. I resemble, 'You have actually got to be actually joking me-- I have actually functioned 300 some tours to come to the lead, now Kyle is going to steal it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and Gibbs gained the two playoff spots for winless vehicle drivers and they both possessed some instants to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex wound up making it by only 6 factors after getting into the nationality guaranteed a spot if there was a regular winner. He ravaged on the 2nd tour of the nationality and completed 36th, certainly not knowing if he would certainly make the playoffs till the end of the second stage." This is unhappy," Truex pointed out prior to he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I just hate it for my crew. ... They should have better. It's merely an error." NASCAR Mug Series: Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to proceed as well as made the cut by 12 points. If he had been actually knocked out of the race, he likely still would have created it, however it will possess been actually merely through a couple of positions." We just got managed truly-- I would say grimy right there certainly-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs claimed. "That was certainly closer than it should possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly insect throughout the whole entire ethnicity, emotion as if he was actually heading to either regurgitate or even have an instance of diarrhea throughout the whole entire race. He wound up 10th, and with Larson ending up fourth, exhausted Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season label costs 15 playoff points (points a driver can use to progress if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while second spot deserves 10. Larson, along with one of the most wins of any kind of driver this year, will possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that believes he captured the bug from his youngster, claimed it was actually awful he ever felt in an ethnicity vehicle." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] woke up Sunday along with the same hoping it would certainly be gone again." I felt great pretty much completely up till the ethnicity. It simply needs to possess been the rub out of [Switch] 2 or one thing. It merely really, truly acquired negative by the end of Phase 1. It just kept there the remainder of the way." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season label even with missing the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not simply that one," Larson pointed out. "I could possess completed at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or even finished at Chicago and also not even been shut today. I do not take a look at Indy as being the reason that. That is actually simply portion of my season. I definitely would not give up running the Indy 500 for five perk aspects." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene journal as well as The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire more from NASCAR Cup Set Observe your favorites to receive details about games, headlines and also even more.