.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him in to the NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs while supplying a crushing draft to motorists planning to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th chauffeur to make a playoff location with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to create the 16-driver playoff area." I understood it was actually visiting be just one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe claimed. "Our team discussed it before the ethnicity today, this is actually the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If we implemented all evening long, I recognized our company would reside in the mix." We implemented. As well as our company remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced through 6 factors while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 points. For much of the nationality, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to be in a tight fight for the ultimate playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the ultimate two regular-season races." Our absolute best wasn't adequate-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second successive full week, a motorist requiring a gain to create the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the ethnicity 18th in the status and 114 aspects behind the playoff deadline, indicating he had not one other pathway to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually moreover truth that made this a thrilling second. He gained a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is finalizing by the end of the time. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless touch, drives the team's renowned No. 14 automobile that was very first steered by Tony Stewart." It's huge," Briscoe pointed out. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That's the automobile I cheered for growing. I've viewed that automobile win opportunity and over and over again, gain a champion."' I was actually wailing'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, who performed a little fresher tires at the end, only couldn't catch Briscoe and skipped the playoffs for the first time due to the fact that 2012." Our experts didn't have much speed there via a bulk of the competition," Busch mentioned. "Our team were actually merely bogged down in visitor traffic, as well as our team weren't capable to get up with there. " But once our experts got out of bed there certainly, I believed that those last 3 or four restarts, our team were actually visiting have a shot operating in the top-5. However then our company took a crack at for the succeed and only could not create it up there." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him well-maintained." Right here he resides in second. I feel like, 'You've come to be joking me-- I've functioned 300 some laps to reach the lead, now Kyle is going to swipe it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made both playoff spots for winless drivers as well as they each had some minutes to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex ended up making it by only 6 points after going into the nationality guaranteed an area if there was a replay champion. He wrecked on the second tour of the race and finished 36th, not recognizing if he will create the playoffs up until the end of the 2nd stage." This is actually difficult," Truex claimed before he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I merely hate it for my crew. ... They should have better. It's merely an oversight." NASCAR Cup Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Features Gibbs was associated with a wreckage along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to continue as well as made the cut through 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still will possess created it, yet it would have been actually merely by a couple of postures." Our experts only obtained ran really-- I would certainly mention dirty right certainly there-- that was unfavorable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was absolutely closer than it ought to possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a stomach insect throughout the entire race, sensation as if he was actually visiting either regurgitate or have a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole race. He wound up 10th, and along with Larson completing fourth, beat Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season title costs 15 playoff points (points a motorist can make use of to accelerate if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while second place is worth 10. Larson, with one of the most success of any sort of chauffeur this year, would certainly have succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he recorded the bug coming from his little one, stated it was actually the worst he ever before felt in a race car." It was dreadful on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] got out of bed Sunday along with the same wishing it would certainly be actually returned." I experienced excellent virtually all the way up till the nationality. It merely has to have been the bump off of [Switch] 2 or even something. It simply actually, really received poor due to the end of Phase 1. It merely kept there the rest of the method." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season title regardless of overlooking the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not just that," Larson pointed out. "I could possess ended up at Michigan or even completed at Iowa or even ended up at Chicago and not even been actually near today. I do not examine Indy as being actually the main reason why. That is actually merely component of my period. I wouldn't surrender running the Indy 500 for five perk factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually spent years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance journal and The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get much more coming from NASCAR Mug Collection Follow your preferences to acquire relevant information concerning video games, updates as well as more.