.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him in to the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while supplying a crushing draft to chauffeurs hoping to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th vehicle driver to gain a playoff area along with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was visiting be among those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe stated. "Our experts talked about it just before the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our company executed all evening long, I understood our team would be in the mix." Our team carried out. And our team resided in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced by 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 factors. For a lot of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to become in a strict war for the last playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that likewise went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the final 2 regular-season nationalities." Our absolute best wasn't good enough-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and 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, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd consecutive full week, a driver needing a win to create the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the ethnicity 18th in the standings as well as 114 factors behind the playoff deadline, meaning he had no other course to the playoffs except to win.But it was moreover simple fact that created this an exciting instant. He made a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is closing by the end of the period. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, steers the team's legendary No. 14 automobile that was first steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually big," Briscoe mentioned. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That is actually the vehicle I cheered for growing. I've viewed that auto gain opportunity and time and time again, win a champion."' I was actually weeping'-- Hunt Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that was on slightly fresher tires at the end, only couldn't find Briscoe as well as missed the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our experts failed to possess much speed there with a large number of the competition," Busch pointed out. "Our company were just bogged down in web traffic, as well as our team weren't able to get up via there. " Once our experts stood up certainly there, I thought that those last 3 or four restarts, we were mosting likely to take a crack at operating in the top-5. Yet then we took a crack at for the win and merely couldn't create it up there." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him tidy." Right here he remains in second. I feel like, 'You've got to be kidding me-- I have actually operated 300 some laps to come to the top, now Kyle is actually mosting likely to take it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made the 2 playoff spots for winless drivers and also they each possessed some minutes to sweat as both were actually involved in wrecks.Truex wound up creating it by merely 6 points after getting into the nationality guaranteed a place if there was actually a repeat victor. He ravaged on the second tour of the ethnicity as well as finished 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would certainly bring in the playoffs till the end of the 2nd stage." This is actually awful," Truex stated just before he recognized whether he brought in the playoffs. "I only dislike it for my crew. ... They ought to have better. It's only a mistake." NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was actually associated with an accident along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to proceed and made it through 12 factors. If he had actually been knocked out of the competition, he likely still will possess produced it, however it would have been merely through a couple of settings." We just obtained managed actually-- I would say unclean right there-- that was actually unlucky," Gibbs mentioned. "That was certainly closer than it should possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach insect throughout the entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was heading to either throw up or possess an instance of diarrhea throughout the whole ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and along with Larson completing 4th, exhausted Larson by one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff factors (factors a vehicle driver can make use of to accelerate if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd area deserves 10. Larson, along with one of the most triumphes of any motorist this year, would certainly have gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he recorded the pest coming from his little one, said it was actually awful he ever experienced in an ethnicity car." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] awakened Sunday with the exact same hoping it would certainly be actually returned." I really felt great pretty much all the way up until the ethnicity. It just must possess been the polish off of [Turn] 2 or one thing. It only truly, truly obtained negative due to the end of Phase 1. It only stayed there the remainder of the means." Larson almost gained the regular-season label despite overlooking the May race at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not merely that," Larson claimed. "I could possibly possess finished at Michigan or even completed at Iowa or even finished at Chicago as well as not even been actually near today. I don't consider Indy as being actually the main reason why. That's only part of my season. I would not surrender managing the Indy five hundred for 5 incentive factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene publication and also The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive more from NASCAR Mug Collection Follow your preferences to receive info about games, news and also additional.