.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that released him into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while supplying a crushing draft to drivers wanting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th motorist to earn a playoff location with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff area." I understood it was mosting likely to be just one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe said. "Our company spoke about it prior to the nationality today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company executed all night long, I recognized our experts would certainly remain in the mix." Our experts performed. And our team resided in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut by six factors while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 aspects. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher as well as Wallace appeared to be in a strict struggle for the ultimate playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that additionally went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the ultimate 2 regular-season races." Our finest had not been satisfactory-- as basic 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 also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second successive week, a motorist needing a succeed to make the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered the race 18th in the standings and 114 factors behind the playoff deadline, implying he possessed no other pathway to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was more simple fact that made this a thrilling instant. He earned an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is shutting in the end of the season. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless touch, steers the group's legendary No. 14 vehicle that was initial steered through Tony Stewart." It's significant," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That's the cars and truck I cheered for growing up. I have actually seen that automobile succeed opportunity and time and time again, gain a champion."' I was shedding tears'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that got on a little fresher tires by the end, just couldn't see Briscoe and missed out on the playoffs for the very first time given that 2012." Our experts failed to possess much rate there with a bulk of the competition," Busch pointed out. "Our company were actually simply bogged down in traffic, and also our company weren't able to rise by means of there. " But once we rose there certainly, I thought that those last 3 or four restarts, our experts were actually visiting take a crack at managing in the top-5. Yet after that we took a crack at for the win and also only could not make it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for dashing him clean." Here he is in second. I'm like, 'You have actually got to be kidding me-- I've functioned 300 some tours to reach the top, today Kyle is actually heading to steal it coming from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and Gibbs earned the two playoff areas for winless vehicle drivers and also they each possessed some instants to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex wound up making it by only 6 points after entering into the race ensured a spot if there was a loyal winner. He ravaged on the second tour of the nationality as well as ended up 36th, not knowing if he would create the playoffs till completion of the 2nd phase." This is actually awful," Truex stated before he understood whether he made the playoffs. "I merely detest it for my team. ... They are worthy of far better. It is actually simply a blunder." NASCAR Mug Series: Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was actually associated with a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry got loose while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to proceed and made it through 12 points. If he had been knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still will have made it, yet it will have been actually just by a couple of settings." Our company simply received managed truly-- I will claim unclean right certainly there-- that was actually unlucky," Gibbs claimed. "That was actually definitely closer than it must possess been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly pest throughout the entire nationality, sensation as if he was mosting likely to either vomit or have a situation of diarrhea throughout the whole entire nationality. He ended up 10th, and along with Larson ending up 4th, beat Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff factors (aspects a chauffeur can utilize to advance if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd place is worth 10. Larson, with one of the most wins of any type of motorist this year, would have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that believes he captured the bug coming from his kid, claimed it was actually the most awful he ever felt in a race car." It was actually terrible on Sunday," Reddick claimed." [I] got out of bed Sunday along with the very same wishing it would be actually returned." I really felt great virtually all the way up till the race. It just must have been the polish off of [Turn] 2 or even one thing. It simply definitely, really got bad by the end of Phase 1. It only kept there the rest of the technique." Larson almost gained the regular-season headline in spite of missing out on the May race at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not merely that a person," Larson pointed out. "I could possibly possess completed at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even completed at Chicago as well as not even been close today. I don't consider Indy as being the main reason why. That's simply portion of my time. I definitely would not quit operating the Indy 500 for five benefit points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has spent many years covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance journal as well as The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive extra coming from NASCAR Mug Collection Follow your faves to obtain information regarding video games, news and also more.