.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that introduced him into the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while delivering a crushing draft to drivers expecting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th driver to make a playoff place along with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff area." I knew it was actually going to be one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe stated. "Our experts talked about it just before the race today, this is the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our experts executed all evening long, I understood our team would reside in the mix." Our experts implemented. And also we were in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher skipped the cut through six factors while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 factors. For much of the nationality, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be in a limited fight for the ultimate playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that likewise went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the last two regular-season races." Our ideal wasn't satisfactory-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second consecutive week, a chauffeur requiring a succeed to bring in the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the nationality 18th in the standings and 114 factors behind the playoff cutoff, implying he had not one other pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more reality that created this a thrilling second. He earned a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is shutting in the end of the time. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless touch, steers the staff's renowned No. 14 vehicle that was actually first driven by Tony Stewart." It is actually significant," Briscoe pointed out. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the car I cheered for maturing. I've observed that auto succeed time and over and over again, succeed a championship."' I was sobbing'-- Hunt Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, who got on slightly fresher tires at the end, merely couldn't catch Briscoe and skipped the playoffs for the very first time due to the fact that 2012." Our company failed to have much speed there with a large number of the competition," Busch said. "Our company were actually just snared in traffic, as well as we weren't capable to stand up via there. " But once we stood up there, I believed that those final 3 or even four restarts, we were going to take a crack at managing in the top-5. But then our experts had a shot for the succeed and also merely couldn't make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him clean." Listed below he resides in 2nd. I resemble, 'You've reached be actually joking me-- I have actually functioned 300 some laps to reach the lead, today Kyle is actually going to steal it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs gained the 2 playoff places for winless motorists as well as they both possessed some instants to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex wound up making it through simply six points after getting in the race promised a location if there was a loyal winner. He trashed on the second tour of the nationality and ended up 36th, certainly not recognizing if he will bring in the playoffs until completion of the 2nd phase." This is actually miserable," Truex said just before he recognized whether he brought in the playoffs. "I merely detest it for my staff. ... They are entitled to far better. It is actually merely a mistake." NASCAR Mug Collection: Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with a wreckage along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loosened while three-wide with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs was able to continue as well as made the cut by 12 points. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still would have created it, however it would certainly possess been actually only through a couple of placements." We only acquired operated actually-- I will claim grimy right there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs stated. "That was certainly closer than it should have been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach pest throughout the whole entire ethnicity, emotion as if he was mosting likely to either regurgitate or possess a scenario of diarrhea throughout the whole nationality. He wound up 10th, and also with Larson completing 4th, beat Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label costs 15 playoff aspects (factors a vehicle driver may make use of to advance if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while second place deserves 10. Larson, along with the most success of any sort of vehicle driver this year, will have succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he captured the bug coming from his kid, claimed it was the worst he ever before felt in an ethnicity auto." It was actually horrible on Sunday," Reddick stated." [I] got up Sunday along with the exact same wishing it would certainly be gone again." I really felt good virtually right up till the ethnicity. It just has to possess been actually the rub out of [Switch] 2 or even something. It merely really, truly got poor due to the end of Phase 1. It just remained there the remainder of the method." Larson almost gained the regular-season headline even with missing the May nationality at Charlotte while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not merely that," Larson claimed. "I can have finished at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or completed at Chicago and also certainly not even been close today. I don't examine Indy as being the reason why. That's simply aspect of my season. I definitely would not lose hope operating the Indy five hundred for five perk factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has actually spent years covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene magazine and The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire extra from NASCAR Mug Series Follow your favorites to acquire information regarding activities, information as well as even more.