.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while providing a pulverizing draft to chauffeurs wanting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season ending as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th vehicle driver to earn a playoff location with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I recognized it was actually visiting be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe claimed. "Our team referred to it prior to the race today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company implemented all evening long, I recognized our team would certainly remain in the mix." Our experts carried out. And our experts resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the reduced through six factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it through 27 points. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace appeared to be in a strict fight for the last playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that also went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the final 2 regular-season ethnicities." 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 finale, where for the 2nd successive week, a chauffeur needing a win to make the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the ethnicity 18th in the standings and also 114 factors behind the playoff cutoff, indicating he had not one other course to the playoffs except to win.But it was more truth that made this an exciting second. He gained an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is closing in the end of the time. Briscoe, that snapped a 93-race winless streak, drives the staff's well-known No. 14 vehicle that was first driven through Tony Stewart." It's large," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That is actually the automobile I cheered for growing up. I've found that car succeed opportunity and also over and over again, gain a championship."' I was actually weeping'-- Hunt Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that got on a little fresher tires at the end, just couldn't find Briscoe as well as overlooked the playoffs for the first time since 2012." Our company didn't possess a lot rate there through a bulk of the competition," Busch stated. "Our experts were just bogged down in traffic, and also our team weren't capable to get up via there. " Once our team rose there certainly, I seemed like those final 3 or 4 restarts, our team were heading to take a crack at operating in the top-5. But after that we had a shot for the win as well as only couldn't make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him clean." Here he resides in second. I feel like, 'You have actually got to be kidding me-- I've worked 300 some laps to get to the top, now Kyle is actually mosting likely to take it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs got the two playoff areas for winless vehicle drivers and they both had some instants to sweat as both were involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself making it through just six points after getting into the race assured a location if there was a repeat victor. He trashed on the second tour of the nationality and also completed 36th, certainly not knowing if he will create the playoffs till the end of the 2nd phase." This is awful," Truex stated before he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I simply hate it for my group. ... They should have better. It is actually only an oversight." NASCAR Mug Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with a wreckage with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry received loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to proceed as well as made it through 12 points. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the race, he likely still would possess made it, but it would certainly have been actually merely by a couple of positions." Our team only got ran really-- I would certainly say grimy right there certainly-- that was unfortunate," Gibbs claimed. "That was definitely closer than it must possess been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a tummy bug throughout the whole entire nationality, emotion as if he was actually visiting either vomit or possess a situation of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire nationality. He ended up 10th, and with Larson ending up fourth, beat Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff aspects (factors a motorist may use to accelerate if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while second area deserves 10. Larson, with the best triumphes of any chauffeur this year, will possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he recorded the insect from his youngster, said it was awful he ever before experienced in an ethnicity automobile." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] awakened Sunday with the same wishing it will be actually gone again." I experienced excellent essentially all the way up till the nationality. It simply should possess been the rub out of [Turn] 2 or even one thing. It simply really, truly obtained bad due to the end of Stage 1. It only kept there the rest of the technique." Larson almost succeeded the regular-season headline in spite of missing the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not merely that," Larson claimed. "I can possess ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or finished at Chicago and certainly not even been actually shut today. I do not check out Indy as being actually the reason that. That is actually simply component of my season. I definitely would not surrender operating the Indy five hundred for five perk points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has devoted decades dealing with motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene journal as well as The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive much more from NASCAR Cup Collection Follow your favorites to obtain details regarding activities, information and additional.