.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that launched him in to the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while supplying a crushing blow to chauffeurs intending to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th motorist to make a playoff spot with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I knew it was actually heading to be among those do-or-die moments," Briscoe said. "Our experts referred to it before the race today, this is actually the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company performed all evening long, I understood our team would remain in the mix." Our experts carried out. And our team resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut through six factors while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 factors. For a lot of the race, Buescher and Wallace appeared to become in a strict fight for the last playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, came up short as he ended up second in the ultimate two regular-season races." Our finest had not been acceptable-- as straightforward as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and 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 as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd successive week, a chauffeur requiring a succeed to bring in the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the ethnicity 18th in the status and 114 aspects behind the playoff deadline, meaning he had not one other path to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more fact that made this a thrilling minute. He made an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually finalizing at the end of the season. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, drives the group's renowned No. 14 auto that was initial driven by Tony Stewart." It is actually big," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That's the auto I cheered for growing up. I've seen that vehicle succeed time and over and over again, win a championship."' I was shedding tears'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, who got on a little fresher tires at the end, only couldn't catch Briscoe and also missed out on the playoffs for the first time considering that 2012." We failed to have a lot rate there through a bulk of the race," Busch pointed out. "Our company were actually simply mired in traffic, and our company weren't able to rise via there. " But once our experts got up certainly there, I believed that those final three or 4 restarts, our experts were actually going to take a crack at operating in the top-5. However at that point our experts took a crack at for the gain as well as just could not create it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for dashing him well-maintained." Below he resides in second. I feel like, 'You have actually come to be joking me-- I've operated 300 some laps to reach the top, today Kyle is mosting likely to take it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made the two playoff areas for winless drivers as well as they each had some moments to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex ended up creating it by simply six factors after getting into the race promised an area if there was actually a loyal winner. He ravaged on the second lap of the ethnicity as well as ended up 36th, not understanding if he would certainly create the playoffs till the end of the 2nd phase." This is actually unhappy," Truex pointed out prior to he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just loathe it for my staff. ... They are worthy of far better. It is actually merely a blunder." NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was associated with a wreckage with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loose while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to carry on and made it by 12 factors. If he had been knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still will possess created it, yet it would certainly possess been just through a couple of postures." Our team simply got ran truly-- I would certainly claim filthy right there-- that was actually unlucky," Gibbs stated. "That was actually definitely closer than it must possess been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a stomach pest throughout the entire race, feeling as if he was going to either regurgitate or possess a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire ethnicity. He ended up 10th, and also with Larson ending up fourth, exhausted Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff aspects (aspects a driver can easily utilize to progress if he does not win in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd spot deserves 10. Larson, along with the best success of any kind of vehicle driver this year, would have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he caught the insect coming from his little one, stated it was actually the most awful he ever before experienced in a nationality vehicle." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick mentioned." [I] awakened Sunday with the same wishing it would certainly be gone again." I really felt really good essentially right up till the ethnicity. It only should possess been actually the polish off of [Transform] 2 or something. It just really, definitely got poor by the end of Phase 1. It merely stayed there the remainder of the means." Larson nearly gained the regular-season label regardless of skipping the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not only that one," Larson claimed. "I can possess finished at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or even finished at Chicago as well as certainly not even been actually close today. I don't consider Indy as being the main reason why. That is actually simply aspect of my season. I would not surrender operating the Indy 500 for 5 reward points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually spent decades dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Performance journal and also The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Set Follow your preferences to acquire details about activities, headlines and also even more.