.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him into the NASCAR Cup Set playoffs while supplying a squashing draft to motorists planning to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to gain a playoff area along with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to make the 16-driver playoff area." I understood it was going to be one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe pointed out. "We referred to it before the nationality today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our experts carried out all night long, I recognized our experts would reside in the mix." We carried out. As well as our experts were in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut by 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it through 27 aspects. For a lot of the race, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to become in a strict war for the final playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that likewise went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the final two regular-season ethnicities." Our ideal had not been good enough-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as 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 consecutive full week, a motorist requiring a win to create the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the race 18th in the status and also 114 factors behind the playoff deadline, implying he possessed not one other path to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually more simple fact that created this an exciting minute. He earned a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is shutting in the end of the period. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless touch, steers the staff's famous No. 14 auto that was actually initial steered through Tony Stewart." It is actually massive," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the cars and truck I cheered for growing up. I've found that vehicle win opportunity as well as over and over again, gain a champion."' I was crying'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, that got on somewhat fresher tires at the end, only could not find Briscoe and also overlooked the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our company didn't possess a lot velocity there through a majority of the race," Busch stated. "Our team were only stuck in traffic, as well as our experts weren't capable to get up with there. " Once we rose certainly there, I seemed like those last 3 or even 4 restarts, our company were heading to have a shot operating in the top-5. Yet then our team took a crack at for the succeed and merely couldn't make it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for racing him clean." Listed here he resides in second. I'm like, 'You've got to be joking me-- I've worked 300 some laps to come to the lead, today Kyle is mosting likely to swipe it coming from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made both playoff places for winless motorists as well as they each had some moments to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex ended up creating it through merely six factors after getting into the race promised a place if there was actually a regular victor. He damaged on the second tour of the ethnicity and also finished 36th, not recognizing if he would create the playoffs until the end of the second stage." This is miserable," Truex claimed before he recognized whether he brought in the playoffs. "I simply despise it for my group. ... They ought to have better. It is actually just a blunder." NASCAR Mug Collection: Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loose while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs managed to carry on as well as made the cut by 12 aspects. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the race, he likely still would certainly possess made it, however it will possess been actually merely through a couple of postures." We only obtained managed really-- I would state filthy right certainly there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs mentioned. "That was actually most definitely closer than it ought to have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach insect throughout the whole race, emotion as if he was mosting likely to either throw up or even have an instance of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole race. He wound up 10th, and along with Larson ending up fourth, exhausted Larson by one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff aspects (aspects a vehicle driver can utilize to progress if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while second spot is worth 10. Larson, along with one of the most victories of any type of chauffeur this year, will possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he captured the insect coming from his child, stated it was actually the most awful he ever really felt in an ethnicity auto." It was actually horrendous on Sunday," Reddick pointed out." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the very same wishing it would certainly be returned." I experienced good basically right up until the ethnicity. It just should possess been actually the bump off of [Switch] 2 or something. It just really, actually obtained bad due to the end of Phase 1. It just kept there the rest of the method." Larson almost won the regular-season title in spite of missing the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not merely that a person," Larson stated. "I can have ended up at Michigan or finished at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and not even been actually close today. I don't examine Indy as being the main reason why. That's only portion of my season. I would not give up operating the Indy five hundred for five bonus offer aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually invested years covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance publication as well as The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire extra from NASCAR Mug Series Observe your preferences to receive info about video games, headlines as well as more.