.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while providing a pulverizing draft to vehicle drivers wishing to make 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 coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to get a playoff location with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to make the 16-driver playoff field." I recognized it was visiting be just one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe pointed out. "Our team spoke about it just before the race today, this is the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our company executed all evening long, I recognized we would certainly reside in the mix." Our team carried out. And also our experts resided in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced by 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 aspects. For a lot of the race, Buescher and Wallace seemed to be in a tight fight for the last playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, came up short as he ended up second in the final 2 regular-season nationalities." Our best wasn't good enough-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and 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, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd successive week, a motorist needing to have a win to bring in the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the nationality 18th in the standings and 114 aspects responsible for the playoff cutoff, suggesting he possessed no other road to the playoffs except to win.But it was actually moreover reality that made this an exhilarating moment. He earned a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is closing in the end of the time. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless touch, drives the group's well-known No. 14 cars and truck that was initial driven by Tony Stewart." It's massive," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That is actually the vehicle I cheered for maturing. I've observed that car win time and also over and over again, succeed a championship."' I was sobbing'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, who performed slightly fresher tires at the end, just couldn't get Briscoe and also overlooked the playoffs for the very first time because 2012." We didn't have a lot speed there through a large number of the race," Busch mentioned. "Our company were actually just bogged down in web traffic, as well as our company weren't able to get out of bed by means of there. " But once our team got up certainly there, I thought that those final 3 or 4 restarts, we were heading to take a crack at managing in the top-5. Yet after that we had a shot for the win and also only could not create it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for racing him well-maintained." Below he remains in second. I'm like, 'You've reached be actually joking me-- I have actually operated 300 some tours to reach the top, today Kyle is actually visiting steal it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made both playoff spots for winless chauffeurs as well as they each possessed some instants to sweat as both were actually involved in wrecks.Truex wound up creating it by simply six aspects after entering into the nationality guaranteed a spot if there was actually a loyal winner. He damaged on the second lap of the race and completed 36th, not recognizing if he would create the playoffs until completion of the 2nd stage." This is awful," Truex mentioned prior to he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I just loathe it for my group. ... They should have far better. It's just a mistake." NASCAR Mug Collection: Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to continue and also made the cut through 12 points. If he had actually been knocked out of the race, he likely still would certainly possess produced it, but it will possess been actually simply by a number of postures." Our team only acquired managed really-- I would claim filthy right there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs said. "That was actually most definitely closer than it needs to have been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a stomach insect throughout the entire nationality, feeling as if he was actually mosting likely to either vomit or even have a case of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire nationality. He ended up 10th, and along with Larson ending up fourth, exhausted Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff factors (points a chauffeur may use to accelerate if he does not win in the three-race playoff shots) while second area is worth 10. Larson, with the absolute most wins of any motorist this year, would certainly possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he recorded the bug coming from his kid, claimed it was the worst he ever before experienced in an ethnicity cars and truck." It was actually terrible on Sunday," Reddick pointed out." [I] woke up Sunday along with the very same wishing it will be actually returned." I experienced great essentially all the way up until the ethnicity. It only has to have been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or something. It only actually, actually obtained negative by the end of Stage 1. It only remained there the remainder of the way." Larson nearly won the regular-season title in spite of skipping the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually not simply that a person," Larson claimed. "I might possess completed at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and certainly not also been actually near today. I don't check out Indy as being the reason. That is actually merely aspect of my time. I wouldn't quit operating the Indy 500 for 5 reward points." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested decades covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Performance journal and also The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get even more from NASCAR Mug Series Observe your faves to receive details about video games, information and additional.