.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while supplying a squashing draft to chauffeurs expecting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th motorist to earn a playoff spot with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to make the 16-driver playoff field." I recognized it was actually visiting be among those do-or-die instants," Briscoe said. "Our experts talked about it just before the ethnicity today, this is the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company implemented all night long, I recognized our experts would certainly reside in the mix." Our experts implemented. And our experts remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced through 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 factors. For much of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to become in a strict fight for the ultimate playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who likewise went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the final pair of regular-season races." Our absolute best wasn't good enough-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), 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 ending, where for the second successive full week, a driver needing a win to make the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the race 18th in the standings as well as 114 factors behind the playoff cutoff, meaning he possessed no other road to the playoffs other than to win.But it was moreover fact that made this an exhilarating moment. He earned a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is finalizing in the end of the period. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, steers the team's legendary No. 14 automobile that was first steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually substantial," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That's the automobile I cheered for maturing. I have actually found that automobile win time as well as over and over again, gain a champion."' I was actually shedding tears'-- Hunt Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that was on a little fresher tires in the end, simply couldn't find Briscoe and also missed the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." We really did not have a lot velocity there through a bulk of the competition," Busch mentioned. "Our team were merely stuck in traffic, and our company weren't able to get up with there. " Once our company got up certainly there, I seemed like those final three or 4 restarts, we were actually visiting have a shot running in the top-5. Yet then we took a crack at for the gain and also just could not make it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for racing him clean." Listed below he remains in second. I feel like, 'You've reached be joking me-- I've operated 300 some tours to come to the top, today Kyle is actually visiting steal it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs gained the 2 playoff locations for winless motorists as well as they both possessed some seconds to sweat as both were involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself making it by simply six aspects after entering the nationality assured a spot if there was a regular winner. He trashed on the second tour of the race and also completed 36th, not knowing if he will create the playoffs till the end of the second stage." This is miserable," Truex claimed just before he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I just detest it for my team. ... They should have better. It's just an error." NASCAR Cup Series: Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with a wreckage with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to carry on and made it through 12 factors. If he had actually been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will have produced it, yet it would possess been actually just by a number of settings." Our experts just obtained ran actually-- I would state unclean right there certainly-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs stated. "That was undoubtedly closer than it should have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy pest throughout the whole entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was mosting likely to either vomit or have a case of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and also with Larson completing fourth, beat Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff points (factors a vehicle driver can easily utilize to accelerate if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd place is worth 10. Larson, with one of the most triumphes of any kind of vehicle driver this year, would have gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he recorded the bug coming from his youngster, claimed it was the worst he ever experienced in a race vehicle." It was actually awful on Saturday," Reddick said." [I] awakened Sunday along with the exact same hoping it will be returned." I really felt excellent practically completely up until the ethnicity. It only needs to have been actually the bump off of [Turn] 2 or something. It merely actually, definitely acquired poor due to the end of Phase 1. It merely kept there the rest of the technique." Larson almost won the regular-season title in spite of skipping the May nationality at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not just that," Larson pointed out. "I could have ended up at Michigan or finished at Iowa or even ended up at Chicago as well as certainly not also been actually close today. I don't look at Indy as being the reason that. That's merely portion of my season. I would not lose hope operating the Indy 500 for five benefit factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has devoted years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance magazine and The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain much more from NASCAR Cup Series Observe your faves to receive relevant information concerning activities, news and more.