.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while supplying a crushing draft to motorists planning to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th motorist to get a playoff place along with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to create the 16-driver playoff area." I knew it was actually mosting likely to be one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe stated. "Our team discussed it just before the nationality today, this is the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our company performed all evening long, I recognized our experts would be in the mix." Our team implemented. As well as we resided in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by six aspects while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 aspects. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to become in a tight struggle for the final playoff place 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 final pair of regular-season ethnicities." Our absolute best had not been sufficient-- as straightforward as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Pursuit 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 vehicle driver needing a succeed to bring in the playoffs made it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the standings and 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, meaning he possessed no other pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was moreover reality that made this an exciting instant. He made an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually shutting at the end of the season. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the group's iconic No. 14 vehicle that was 1st steered through Tony Stewart." It's huge," Briscoe claimed. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That is actually the car I cheered for maturing. I've found that automobile gain opportunity and also time and time again, succeed a championship."' I was actually bursting into tears'-- Hunt Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that performed somewhat fresher tires by the end, just could not see Briscoe and also missed the playoffs for the very first time given that 2012." Our team didn't have a lot speed there via a majority of the competition," Busch mentioned. "Our company were only mired in web traffic, and also our company weren't capable to stand up via there. " But once we rose there, I seemed like those last 3 or even 4 restarts, our team were actually heading to have a shot managing in the top-5. Yet at that point our company took a crack at for the gain and only could not make it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Here he resides in second. I resemble, 'You've got to be kidding me-- I've functioned 300 some tours to get to the top, today Kyle is actually mosting likely to steal it coming from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs earned the two playoff areas for winless drivers and also they each possessed some moments to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself making it through only six factors after getting into the ethnicity promised an area if there was a repeat victor. He ravaged on the second lap of the nationality and finished 36th, not understanding if he would certainly create the playoffs till the end of the second stage." This is miserable," Truex said just before he understood whether he created the playoffs. "I simply hate it for my team. ... They deserve much better. It is actually simply a blunder." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with an accident with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs was able to proceed as well as made the cut through 12 points. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the race, he likely still will have made it, however it will possess been only by a couple of postures." Our company just got managed definitely-- I will claim unclean right certainly there-- that was actually unlucky," Gibbs pointed out. "That was most definitely closer than it ought to have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly pest throughout the whole ethnicity, sensation as if he was heading to either throw up or have a scenario of diarrhea throughout the whole nationality. He wound up 10th, and with Larson finishing fourth, exhausted Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season title costs 15 playoff points (aspects a driver can easily utilize to advance if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while second location costs 10. Larson, along with one of the most victories of any type of motorist this year, would certainly have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he recorded the pest coming from his youngster, said it was the worst he ever experienced in a nationality cars and truck." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] woke up Sunday with the very same hoping it would certainly be gone again." I felt great more or less completely up until the ethnicity. It merely must have been actually the bump off of [Turn] 2 or something. It just actually, definitely acquired negative by the end of Stage 1. It simply kept there the remainder of the technique." Larson virtually won the regular-season title even with overlooking the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually not simply that one," Larson claimed. "I might have completed at Michigan or completed at Iowa or completed at Chicago and also certainly not also been near today. I don't take a look at Indy as being actually the reason that. That's just aspect of my period. I wouldn't quit running the Indy five hundred for five bonus offer points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has invested decades covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Performance magazine as well as The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get much more from NASCAR Mug Series Follow your faves to acquire relevant information about video games, information and also additional.