.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while delivering a crushing draft to motorists wanting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th chauffeur to get a playoff place along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to create the 16-driver playoff field." I understood it was actually going to be one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe mentioned. "We referred to it before the race today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company implemented all evening long, I knew our experts will be in the mix." Our company carried out. And also we resided in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut through 6 factors while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 aspects. For much of the race, Buescher and Wallace seemed to become in a strict struggle for the last playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that also went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the last 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our 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 consecutive week, a chauffeur needing a succeed to make the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the ethnicity 18th in the status and 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, meaning he had not one other road to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more simple fact that created this an electrifying minute. He made a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually finalizing by the end of the season. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless touch, drives the crew's well-known No. 14 car that was 1st driven by Tony Stewart." It's massive," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the vehicle I cheered for growing. I have actually found that cars and truck win time and time and time again, win a championship."' I was shedding tears'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, who was on a little fresher tires in the end, simply could not see Briscoe and missed the playoffs for the first time because 2012." Our experts failed to have a lot rate there by means of a bulk of the competition," Busch stated. "Our company were just stuck in website traffic, and our experts weren't able to stand up by means of there. " Once our experts rose certainly there, I felt like those final 3 or 4 restarts, our company were mosting likely to have a shot running in the top-5. However after that we took a crack at for the gain as well as simply could not make it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him well-maintained." Here he resides in 2nd. I resemble, 'You have actually reached be actually kidding me-- I have actually functioned 300 some laps to come to the top, right now Kyle is visiting swipe it coming from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs got the 2 playoff locations for winless motorists and also they each had some minutes to sweat as both were actually associated with wrecks.Truex ended up creating it by just 6 points after going into the nationality guaranteed a place if there was actually a replay victor. He damaged on the second tour of the ethnicity and also finished 36th, not knowing if he will bring in the playoffs till completion of the 2nd phase." This is actually awful," Truex stated prior to he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I just despise it for my staff. ... They deserve better. It is actually simply a mistake." NASCAR Cup Collection: Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry obtained loosened while three-wide with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to proceed and made the cut through 12 points. If he had been knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would possess created it, yet it would certainly have been simply through a couple of postures." We merely received ran truly-- I would certainly claim filthy right certainly there-- that was actually regrettable," Gibbs pointed out. "That was actually certainly closer than it needs to possess been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach insect throughout the whole nationality, sensation as if he was mosting likely to either throw up or have a scenario of diarrhea throughout the whole entire nationality. He ended up 10th, as well as along with Larson ending up 4th, beat Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline deserves 15 playoff aspects (aspects a motorist can easily use to progress if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while second area costs 10. Larson, with the absolute most wins of any vehicle driver this year, would possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that believes he caught the bug coming from his kid, mentioned it was awful he ever really felt in a race car." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] awakened Sunday along with the very same wishing it would be gone again." I experienced excellent more or less right up till the race. It just has to possess been the polish off of [Turn] 2 or something. It simply truly, really acquired bad due to the end of Stage 1. It just kept there the rest of the means." Larson almost gained the regular-season label in spite of overlooking the May race at Charlotte nc while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not simply that people," Larson mentioned. "I might have finished at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or even finished at Chicago and also certainly not also been actually close today. I do not consider Indy as being the reason. That is actually merely part of my time. I definitely would not quit managing the Indy 500 for five benefit factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested many years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene publication as well as The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire extra from NASCAR Cup Series Observe your preferences to receive information concerning activities, headlines as well as even more.