.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that launched him in to the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while providing a squashing draft to motorists expecting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season ending as he led the final 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th chauffeur to make a playoff location along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to make the 16-driver playoff industry." I recognized it was actually mosting likely to be one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe stated. "Our team spoke about it just before the race today, this is actually the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our company implemented all night long, I knew our company would certainly be in the mix." We performed. As well as our team were in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher skipped the cut through 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it through 27 factors. For much of the race, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to become in a limited battle for the final playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the ultimate pair of regular-season ethnicities." Our greatest wasn't acceptable-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are actually 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 successive week, a vehicle driver requiring a gain to create the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the race 18th in the status and also 114 aspects responsible for the playoff deadline, suggesting he had nothing else road to the playoffs except to win.But it was actually more than that reality that made this an exhilarating moment. He gained a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is finalizing at the end of the time. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless touch, drives the staff's iconic No. 14 car that was actually very first steered by Tony Stewart." It's substantial," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That is actually the vehicle I cheered for growing. I've viewed that cars and truck win time and time and time again, win a championship."' I was crying'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that performed a little fresher tires at the end, merely couldn't see Briscoe and overlooked the playoffs for the first time since 2012." Our experts didn't possess much velocity there through a large number of the competition," Busch stated. "We were actually just mired in visitor traffic, and our experts weren't able to get up through there. " But once our company got out of bed certainly there, I felt like those last 3 or four restarts, our team were actually going to have a shot managing in the top-5. But then our experts had a shot for the succeed and merely couldn't make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him tidy." Below he is in second. I'm like, 'You have actually reached be actually kidding me-- I have actually functioned 300 some tours to get to the top, now Kyle is actually going to steal it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs gained both playoff spots for winless drivers and they each had some moments to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex wound up making it through only 6 aspects after entering into the race assured an area if there was actually a replay victor. He ravaged on the 2nd tour of the nationality as well as ended up 36th, certainly not knowing if he would make the playoffs up until the end of the 2nd stage." This is actually unhappy," Truex stated just before he knew whether he made the playoffs. "I merely dislike it for my team. ... They deserve much better. It's only an error." NASCAR Cup Set: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with a wreckage with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry obtained loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs was able to continue and also made the cut through 12 factors. If he had actually been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will possess produced it, but it would certainly possess been actually just through a couple of placements." Our company merely received ran truly-- I will state grimy right there certainly-- that was regrettable," Gibbs said. "That was actually undoubtedly closer than it needs to have been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy pest throughout the whole race, sensation as if he was actually heading to either vomit or possess a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and also with Larson completing 4th, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label costs 15 playoff factors (aspects a chauffeur may make use of to progress if he doesn't gain in the three-race playoff shots) while second area deserves 10. Larson, along with the most wins of any sort of driver this year, will possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he recorded the insect from his youngster, stated it was the worst he ever before really felt in a nationality cars and truck." It was actually horrible on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the exact same hoping it would be gone again." I really felt excellent essentially right up until the ethnicity. It simply must possess been actually the rub out of [Transform] 2 or something. It just definitely, definitely received negative due to the end of Stage 1. It simply remained there the rest of the method." Larson almost gained the regular-season label in spite of missing out on the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually not merely that one," Larson claimed. "I might have finished at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and also certainly not also been close today. I don't examine Indy as being the reason that. That is actually only component of my season. I wouldn't lose hope running the Indy five hundred for five incentive points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested decades covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene publication and The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain more coming from NASCAR Mug Series Follow your favorites to obtain details about games, updates and also more.