.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe postponed Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs while providing a pulverizing draft to vehicle drivers expecting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th motorist to earn a playoff location along with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff area." I understood it was heading to be among those do-or-die moments," Briscoe claimed. "Our team referred to it prior to the race today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our team executed all night long, I understood we would remain in the mix." Our company carried out. And also our team were in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced through 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 aspects. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be in a tight war for the final playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the last two regular-season ethnicities." Our ideal wasn't good enough-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second successive full week, a vehicle driver needing to have a succeed to make the playoffs made it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the ethnicity 18th in the status as well as 114 factors responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he possessed not one other course to the playoffs except to win.But it was more fact that created this a thrilling minute. He earned an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually closing in the end of the time. Briscoe, that popped a 93-race winless streak, drives the group's legendary No. 14 auto that was actually 1st driven through Tony Stewart." It's big," Briscoe stated. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That's the auto I cheered for growing. I've seen that cars and truck gain opportunity and also over and over again, gain a champion."' I was actually weeping'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Southern 500 Busch, that performed somewhat fresher tires in the end, just could not catch Briscoe and also missed the playoffs for the first time due to the fact that 2012." We didn't possess much rate there via a large number of the race," Busch stated. "Our team were actually only bogged down in traffic, and our company weren't able to get out of bed with there. " But once our experts got up there certainly, I seemed like those final 3 or 4 restarts, our company were actually heading to have a shot running in the top-5. However after that our team had a shot for the win and also simply could not create it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him tidy." Listed below he remains in 2nd. I resemble, 'You have actually come to be joking me-- I've operated 300 some laps to get to the lead, right now Kyle is heading to steal it from us,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs gained both playoff places for winless chauffeurs as well as they each possessed some moments to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex wound up creating it by simply 6 aspects after entering into the nationality ensured a location if there was a repeat victor. He wrecked on the 2nd tour of the nationality as well as finished 36th, certainly not knowing if he would bring in the playoffs till completion of the 2nd stage." This is awful," Truex claimed prior to he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I only dislike it for my team. ... They ought to have much better. It's only a mistake." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was associated with an accident along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry got loose while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs was able to proceed and made the cut through 12 factors. If he had been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will possess produced it, however it would certainly possess been actually just by a couple of placements." Our team simply obtained ran really-- I will claim filthy right certainly there-- that was actually regrettable," Gibbs claimed. "That was undoubtedly closer than it should have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy pest throughout the whole ethnicity, sensation as if he was actually mosting likely to either throw up or even possess an instance of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire ethnicity. He ended up 10th, as well as along with Larson ending up 4th, beat Larson by one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff points (points a driver can utilize to advance if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd area deserves 10. Larson, along with the absolute most success of any motorist this year, would possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that believes he captured the insect from his little one, mentioned it was awful he ever before really felt in an ethnicity vehicle." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick claimed." [I] got out of bed Sunday along with the same wishing it would certainly be returned." I experienced really good essentially all the way up till the ethnicity. It just has to possess been actually the rub out of [Switch] 2 or something. It merely really, definitely obtained negative due to the end of Stage 1. It merely stayed there the rest of the way." Larson nearly won the regular-season headline regardless of missing the May race at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually not only that," Larson stated. "I could possibly have finished at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or finished at Chicago as well as not also been near today. I don't check out Indy as being the reason. That is actually simply part of my time. I wouldn't lose hope operating the Indy 500 for five perk factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has spent many years covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance journal and also The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get much more from NASCAR Cup Set Follow your faves to receive details regarding video games, information and also additional.