.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while supplying a squashing blow to drivers wanting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season ending as he led the final 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th chauffeur to make a playoff place with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to create the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was mosting likely to be one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe mentioned. "Our experts spoke about it prior to the nationality today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company implemented all evening long, I recognized our experts would reside in the mix." Our experts executed. And also our team were in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 factors. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to become in a tight struggle for the final playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the ultimate 2 regular-season nationalities." Our ideal had not been satisfactory-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), 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 finale, where for the second consecutive full week, a chauffeur needing to have a win to create the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 points responsible for the playoff cutoff, suggesting he possessed no other pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was moreover simple fact that created this an electrifying instant. He earned a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is actually closing at the end of the time. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless streak, drives the team's famous No. 14 cars and truck that was actually first driven through Tony Stewart." It is actually massive," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That is actually the auto I cheered for growing. I have actually observed that automobile win opportunity and time and time again, win a championship."' I was actually shedding tears'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, who was on somewhat fresher tires at the end, simply couldn't find Briscoe and also skipped the playoffs for the first time due to the fact that 2012." Our company failed to possess much rate there with a large number of the competition," Busch stated. "We were only mired in visitor traffic, as well as our company weren't able to stand up with there. " But once we stood up there, I believed that those final three or four restarts, our team were actually visiting take a crack at managing in the top-5. However then our team had a shot for the gain and also just couldn't make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for dashing him clean." Here he is in 2nd. I'm like, 'You've come to be joking me-- I have actually worked 300 some laps to come to the lead, now Kyle is actually going to take it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made both playoff places for winless motorists as well as they both had some instants to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex wound up making it through merely six aspects after getting into the ethnicity guaranteed a location if there was actually a loyal champion. He wrecked on the second lap of the nationality and also completed 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would make the playoffs up until completion of the 2nd stage." This is actually unpleasant," Truex pointed out prior to he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I simply loathe it for my staff. ... They ought to have better. It is actually simply an error." NASCAR Cup Set: Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was actually involved in a wreck along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry received loose while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs was able to carry on and made it by 12 points. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the race, he likely still would certainly possess produced it, yet it would have been merely through a couple of positions." We just acquired managed actually-- I will claim filthy right certainly there-- that was regrettable," Gibbs stated. "That was absolutely closer than it ought to have been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a stomach bug throughout the whole race, emotion as if he was visiting either throw up or even possess a situation of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and also with Larson completing fourth, beat Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff factors (aspects a driver can use to accelerate if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd spot costs 10. Larson, with the absolute most success of any type of motorist this year, would certainly possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he caught the insect coming from his youngster, claimed it was actually the most awful he ever really felt in a nationality cars and truck." It was horrible on Sunday," Reddick mentioned." [I] woke up Sunday along with the very same hoping it would be actually gone again." I felt great pretty much completely up until the nationality. It merely should have been actually the bump off of [Transform] 2 or something. It just really, truly acquired bad by the end of Stage 1. It only kept there the rest of the technique." Larson virtually gained the regular-season title regardless of skipping the May nationality at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's not just that one," Larson pointed out. "I can have ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or even ended up at Chicago and also not also been near today. I don't look at Indy as being the reason that. That is actually just portion of my period. I would not give up running the Indy 500 for five perk factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested many years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive even more from NASCAR Cup Collection Observe your faves to receive information concerning games, information as well as more.