.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that released him right into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while delivering a squashing blow to vehicle drivers wanting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th vehicle driver to make a playoff area along with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to make the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was heading to be among those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe said. "Our company referred to it just before the ethnicity today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our team implemented all night long, I understood our company will reside in the mix." Our experts carried out. And also our company remained in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut through six points while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 aspects. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace appeared to become in a limited fight for the ultimate playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that additionally went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the ultimate 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our best wasn't sufficient-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and 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, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd consecutive full week, a chauffeur needing to have a gain to create the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the ethnicity 18th in the standings and 114 aspects behind the playoff cutoff, meaning he had nothing else road to the playoffs other than to win.But it was moreover reality that made this an electrifying minute. He earned a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually shutting in the end of the time. Briscoe, that snapped a 93-race winless touch, steers the crew's renowned No. 14 auto that was actually first steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually massive," Briscoe said. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That's the vehicle I cheered for maturing. I have actually viewed that automobile win time and also over and over again, succeed a champion."' I was crying'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, that performed somewhat fresher tires at the end, just could not see Briscoe and skipped the playoffs for the first time since 2012." Our experts failed to possess much speed there through a large number of the race," Busch pointed out. "We were actually simply bogged down in website traffic, and also we weren't capable to get up via there. " Once we got up certainly there, I thought that those final 3 or even four restarts, our team were actually heading to take a crack at operating in the top-5. Yet then our company took a crack at for the gain as well as merely could not make it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for racing him clean." Listed here he is in second. I resemble, 'You've come to be actually kidding me-- I have actually worked 300 some laps to come to the top, now Kyle is actually visiting swipe it coming from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made both playoff places for winless drivers and also they both possessed some instants to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex wound up making it by merely 6 aspects after going into the nationality promised a place if there was actually a loyal champion. He trashed on the second lap of the ethnicity and also finished 36th, not understanding if he would make the playoffs till the end of the second phase." This is unpleasant," Truex claimed prior to he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I just hate it for my team. ... They are entitled to better. It is actually merely a mistake." NASCAR Mug Collection: Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was actually involved in a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loose while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs was able to continue and also made it by 12 factors. If he had been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will have produced it, but it will have been merely by a number of settings." Our team just obtained operated really-- I would say dirty right certainly there-- that was regrettable," Gibbs claimed. "That was most definitely closer than it needs to possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a tummy bug throughout the entire race, sensation as if he was visiting either regurgitate or even have an instance of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire ethnicity. He wound up 10th, as well as along with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label deserves 15 playoff factors (points a motorist can easily use to accelerate if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while second place costs 10. Larson, along with the absolute most success of any type of driver this year, would possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he caught the pest coming from his little one, said it was awful he ever experienced in a race car." It was actually horrible on Sunday," Reddick stated." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the very same wishing it would certainly be gone again." I felt good basically right up until the race. It simply should possess been actually the rub out of [Switch] 2 or even one thing. It merely really, truly acquired poor due to the end of Stage 1. It merely stayed there the remainder of the technique." Larson almost succeeded the regular-season title regardless of overlooking the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not just that one," Larson pointed out. "I might possess ended up at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and also not also been close today. I do not check out Indy as being actually the reason why. That's merely component of my period. I would not give up managing the Indy five hundred for 5 bonus offer factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually spent years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene journal and also The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get even more from NASCAR Cup Set Follow your favorites to get relevant information about video games, news and additional.