.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while supplying a squashing draft to motorists planning to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th vehicle driver to make a playoff area along with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to make the 16-driver playoff industry." I knew it was mosting likely to be among those do-or-die instants," Briscoe stated. "Our company discussed it just before the ethnicity today, this is actually the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our team carried out all night long, I understood our experts would remain in the mix." Our company carried out. And our company remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut through 6 points while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 aspects. For much of the race, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be in a limited fight for the final playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, came up short as he ended up second in the ultimate 2 regular-season races." Our greatest wasn't adequate-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second successive week, a driver needing to have a succeed to bring in the playoffs made it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered the race 18th in the standings and 114 factors responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he had no other road to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was moreover fact that created this an electrifying moment. He gained a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is finalizing at the end of the period. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, steers the crew's well-known No. 14 auto that was first steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually big," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the car I cheered for maturing. I've viewed that cars and truck succeed opportunity and over and over again, gain a champion."' I was actually crying'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, that got on somewhat fresher tires in the end, just could not get Briscoe and skipped the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our company didn't possess a lot rate there by means of a bulk of the race," Busch stated. "Our experts were actually only stuck in traffic, and also we weren't capable to get up by means of there. " Once we stood up certainly there, I thought that those final 3 or 4 restarts, our team were actually heading to take a crack at managing in the top-5. Yet at that point we had a shot for the gain and only could not create it up there." Briscoe thanked Busch for dashing him clean." Listed here he is in second. I resemble, 'You've come to be actually joking me-- I've worked 300 some laps to come to the top, right now Kyle is visiting steal it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made the 2 playoff spots for winless chauffeurs and also they each possessed some minutes to sweat as both were actually involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself making it through only six factors after getting into the nationality promised a place if there was a replay champion. He damaged on the second lap of the ethnicity and finished 36th, certainly not understanding if he will make the playoffs till the end of the 2nd stage." This is miserable," Truex mentioned before he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I only despise it for my group. ... They ought to have far better. It's merely an error." NASCAR Cup Collection: Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was associated with a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to carry on and made it by 12 points. If he had been knocked out of the race, he likely still would possess created it, yet it will have been simply by a couple of postures." We just acquired operated really-- I would mention grimy right certainly there-- that was unlucky," Gibbs claimed. "That was certainly closer than it should have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy pest throughout the entire race, sensation as if he was visiting either vomit or have a case of diarrhea throughout the entire race. He wound up 10th, as well as with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff aspects (aspects a vehicle driver can easily use to progress if he does not win in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd location costs 10. Larson, along with the absolute most triumphes of any sort of driver this year, would certainly have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he captured the bug coming from his youngster, claimed it was actually awful he ever before felt in a nationality auto." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the same hoping it will be returned." I really felt good practically completely up until the nationality. It simply has to possess been the polish off of [Turn] 2 or one thing. It simply truly, actually acquired bad due to the end of Phase 1. It simply remained there the rest of the method." Larson nearly won the regular-season label despite overlooking the May race at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not just that," Larson stated. "I can possess ended up at Michigan or even completed at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and certainly not even been close today. I do not check out Indy as being the reason why. That's simply portion of my time. I definitely would not quit running the Indy five hundred for 5 perk factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has devoted many years dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene publication and The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain a lot more from NASCAR Cup Collection Follow your faves to get relevant information concerning activities, headlines and additional.