.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe postponed Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him in to the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while delivering a squashing draft to chauffeurs expecting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season ending as he led the ultimate 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th driver to get a playoff area with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff area." I knew it was going to be just one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe stated. "We referred to it before the nationality today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our experts executed all evening long, I recognized our company would remain in the mix." Our company executed. As well as our experts were in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut by 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 factors. For a lot of the race, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be to become in a strict fight for the ultimate playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the last two regular-season nationalities." Our best wasn't satisfactory-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also 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, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd consecutive week, a driver requiring a gain to create the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the ethnicity 18th in the standings and also 114 aspects behind the playoff cutoff, meaning he had nothing else path to the playoffs other than to win.But it was actually more fact that created this an exhilarating second. He gained a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually closing by the end of the time. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, steers the crew's legendary No. 14 automobile that was actually very first steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually significant," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That is actually the car I cheered for growing. I have actually observed that automobile win opportunity as well as time and time again, gain a champion."' I was shedding tears'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, that was on somewhat fresher tires at the end, only couldn't see Briscoe as well as missed the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our experts didn't have much rate there via a bulk of the race," Busch stated. "Our company were actually merely bogged down in visitor traffic, as well as we weren't capable to get out of bed via there. " Once we rose certainly there, I seemed like those final three or 4 restarts, we were visiting have a shot running in the top-5. Yet after that our experts took a crack at for the win as well as merely could not make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him tidy." Listed below he is in second. I feel like, 'You've reached be joking me-- I've functioned 300 some tours to reach the lead, today Kyle is going to swipe it coming from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and Gibbs earned the two playoff areas for winless vehicle drivers and they each possessed some seconds to sweat as both were involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself making it by only 6 points after getting in the nationality assured an area if there was actually a loyal victor. He wrecked on the 2nd lap of the race as well as completed 36th, certainly not understanding if he would certainly bring in the playoffs up until completion of the second phase." This is actually miserable," Truex claimed just before he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just despise it for my crew. ... They should have better. It's simply an error." NASCAR Mug Set: Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was involved in a wreck with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry received loosened while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to carry on as well as made it through 12 points. If he had been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will have created it, however it would certainly possess been actually merely through a couple of settings." Our experts just received ran definitely-- I would claim unclean right there-- that was actually unlucky," Gibbs said. "That was certainly closer than it needs to possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly bug throughout the whole entire nationality, sensation as if he was actually visiting either vomit or have a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole race. He ended up 10th, and with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff factors (factors a vehicle driver may make use of to progress if he doesn't gain in the three-race playoff rounds) while second place costs 10. Larson, along with the most wins of any vehicle driver this year, would possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he caught the pest from his child, said it was the worst he ever felt in a race vehicle." It was terrible on Saturday," Reddick claimed." [I] got up Sunday along with the exact same wishing it would be returned." I really felt excellent practically all the way up till the race. It simply must have been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It simply truly, definitely received bad by the end of Phase 1. It merely stayed there the rest of the means." Larson almost gained the regular-season title in spite of overlooking the May race at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually certainly not merely that people," Larson said. "I could possibly possess ended up at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even finished at Chicago and also not also been actually shut today. I do not consider Indy as being actually the reason. That is actually only portion of my season. I wouldn't surrender managing the Indy 500 for five bonus points." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually invested years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Performance magazine and also The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive more from NASCAR Cup Series Observe your favorites to obtain relevant information about games, headlines and also additional.