.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while delivering a pulverizing draft to drivers wishing to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to get a playoff spot along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to make the 16-driver playoff industry." I knew it was actually mosting likely to be just one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe stated. "We talked about it just before the nationality today, this is actually the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our experts executed all night long, I knew our team would reside in the mix." Our experts implemented. As well as our company remained in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the reduced by 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 aspects. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to be in a strict war for the final playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who also went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the last pair of regular-season nationalities." Our ideal wasn't satisfactory-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second successive full week, a motorist requiring a win to bring in the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 points responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he had no other road to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was moreover fact that made this a thrilling second. He earned a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is actually finalizing in the end of the period. Briscoe, who popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the group's well-known No. 14 vehicle that was first steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually significant," Briscoe mentioned. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That's the automobile I cheered for growing. I have actually observed that auto win time and time and time again, win a champion."' I was actually crying'-- Hunt Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, who got on a little fresher tires at the end, merely could not catch Briscoe as well as overlooked the playoffs for the first time considering that 2012." Our company failed to possess a lot speed there with a majority of the competition," Busch pointed out. "Our experts were merely bogged down in website traffic, as well as our team weren't able to stand up via there. " But once we got out of bed there, I felt like those last three or even 4 restarts, our experts were actually heading to take a crack at managing in the top-5. However then our team had a shot for the gain and simply couldn't make it apex." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for dashing him tidy." Here he remains in 2nd. I'm like, 'You've come to be actually joking me-- I've operated 300 some laps to get to the lead, right now Kyle is going to swipe it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs got the two playoff locations for winless vehicle drivers as well as they each had some instants to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself creating it by just 6 points after entering into the nationality promised a location if there was actually a regular victor. He ravaged on the second lap of the nationality and also finished 36th, not recognizing if he would certainly bring in the playoffs until completion of the 2nd stage." This is actually unhappy," Truex claimed prior to he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I merely hate it for my team. ... They are worthy of far better. It's simply an oversight." NASCAR Cup Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Features Gibbs was actually associated with a wreck with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loose while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to proceed as well as made it through 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would certainly have made it, but it will possess been actually just through a couple of settings." Our team just obtained operated actually-- I would state grimy right certainly there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was actually undoubtedly closer than it ought to have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a belly bug throughout the whole entire race, emotion as if he was going to either throw up or even possess a scenario of diarrhea throughout the whole race. He ended up 10th, and with Larson finishing fourth, exhausted Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label deserves 15 playoff points (factors a chauffeur may use to progress if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd spot is worth 10. Larson, with the absolute most wins of any sort of driver this year, will have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he recorded the bug coming from his kid, mentioned it was actually the worst he ever before really felt in a race auto." It was horrendous on Sunday," Reddick pointed out." [I] woke up Sunday along with the exact same hoping it will be actually returned." I experienced great virtually completely up till the nationality. It simply has to possess been the polish off of [Switch] 2 or one thing. It merely truly, really received poor by the end of Phase 1. It simply kept there the rest of the method." Larson virtually succeeded the regular-season label even with skipping the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not simply that one," Larson said. "I could have completed at Michigan or finished at Iowa or even ended up at Chicago as well as certainly not even been actually near today. I don't look at Indy as being the reason. That's simply component of my time. I wouldn't lose hope running the Indy five hundred for five benefit factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has spent many years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Performance publication and also The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Series Observe your faves to obtain details concerning activities, updates as well as additional.