.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that launched him into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while delivering a pulverizing draft to chauffeurs expecting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th driver to get a playoff spot along with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was heading to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe stated. "We spoke about it before the nationality today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our team executed all evening long, I recognized we would reside in the mix." Our company implemented. And our experts remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed the cut through six points while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 aspects. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher and Wallace appeared to be in a limited struggle for the final playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the last 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our ideal had not been acceptable-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as 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, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd successive week, a motorist needing a gain to make the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the standings as well as 114 factors responsible for the playoff deadline, meaning he possessed nothing else course to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more fact that made this an exhilarating instant. He made an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually finalizing by the end of the time. Briscoe, who popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the staff's iconic No. 14 vehicle that was actually first steered through Tony Stewart." It's massive," Briscoe said. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That is actually the vehicle I cheered for growing up. I've seen that vehicle gain opportunity and also over and over again, win a championship."' I was actually crying'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Southern five hundred Busch, that got on slightly fresher tires by the end, just could not find Briscoe as well as skipped the playoffs for the very first time because 2012." Our company didn't possess a lot speed there by means of a majority of the competition," Busch pointed out. "Our team were actually just mired in web traffic, and our experts weren't capable to stand up by means of there. " But once our company rose there, I thought that those final three or even 4 restarts, our company were mosting likely to have a shot managing in the top-5. But at that point our experts had a shot for the win as well as only couldn't create it up there." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him clean." Listed below he resides in 2nd. I'm like, 'You've come to be kidding me-- I've worked 300 some tours to reach the lead, right now Kyle is actually heading to take it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and Gibbs gained both playoff areas for winless drivers and they each possessed some instants to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex found yourself making it by only 6 factors after getting into the ethnicity promised an area if there was actually a replay victor. He trashed on the 2nd tour of the nationality and also ended up 36th, not knowing if he would certainly bring in the playoffs until the end of the 2nd phase." This is actually unhappy," Truex stated just before he knew whether he brought in the playoffs. "I merely dislike it for my staff. ... They deserve much better. It is actually merely an error." NASCAR Mug Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Features Gibbs was involved in a wreckage along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs was able to continue and also made it through 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the race, he likely still would certainly have produced it, but it will have been actually only by a number of postures." We just got ran truly-- I would certainly claim unclean right there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs claimed. "That was actually undoubtedly closer than it ought to have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a tummy bug throughout the whole nationality, emotion as if he was mosting likely to either regurgitate or even have an instance of diarrhea throughout the whole race. He wound up 10th, as well as along with Larson finishing fourth, beat Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label deserves 15 playoff points (points a motorist may make use of to progress if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while second place deserves 10. Larson, with the best triumphes of any kind of vehicle driver this year, would certainly possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he captured the bug from his little one, stated it was actually the most awful he ever experienced in a race car." It was actually dreadful on Sunday," Reddick stated." [I] got up Sunday along with the same hoping it will be gone again." I experienced excellent pretty much completely up until the race. It just must have been actually the bump off of [Transform] 2 or something. It simply actually, definitely received bad due to the end of Stage 1. It merely stayed there the rest of the technique." Larson nearly won the regular-season title in spite of missing out on the May race at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually not merely that a person," Larson stated. "I could possibly possess finished at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and also certainly not also been actually close today. I don't check out Indy as being the main reason why. That is actually just component of my period. I definitely would not lose hope operating the Indy 500 for 5 incentive factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has devoted many years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance publication and also The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive much more coming from NASCAR Cup Set Observe your faves to receive relevant information concerning games, headlines and even more.