.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe postponed Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while delivering a squashing blow to chauffeurs wanting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th motorist to gain a playoff location with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to create the 16-driver playoff area." I recognized it was actually mosting likely to be among those do-or-die moments," Briscoe pointed out. "Our team spoke about it just before the ethnicity today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our experts performed all evening long, I knew we will be in the mix." Our company carried out. And our company resided in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the cut by 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 points. For much of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be to be in a tight war for the last playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the ultimate 2 regular-season races." Our finest had not been good enough-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, 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 ending, where for the second successive week, a motorist requiring a win to make the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the nationality 18th in the status and 114 points responsible for the playoff deadline, meaning he possessed not one other road to the playoffs except to win.But it was moreover truth that made this an exhilarating second. He got an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is finalizing at the end of the period. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, steers the group's famous No. 14 cars and truck that was initial steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually significant," Briscoe pointed out. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That is actually the automobile I cheered for maturing. I have actually viewed that vehicle win opportunity and also time and time again, win a champion."' I was crying'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Cook Out Southern five hundred Busch, that was on slightly fresher tires by the end, only couldn't get Briscoe as well as skipped the playoffs for the very first time due to the fact that 2012." We didn't possess a lot velocity there with a majority of the race," Busch said. "Our experts were actually just bogged down in web traffic, and also our company weren't capable to get out of bed through there. " But once our team rose there certainly, I thought that those last 3 or four restarts, we were actually heading to have a shot running in the top-5. However after that our company had a shot for the gain as well as merely couldn't make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him well-maintained." Below he resides in 2nd. I'm like, 'You have actually reached be joking me-- I've worked 300 some laps to get to the lead, right now Kyle is actually visiting swipe it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs gained the 2 playoff locations for winless chauffeurs and also they both had some seconds to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex found yourself making it through only six factors after getting into the race guaranteed a spot if there was actually a regular winner. He ravaged on the second tour of the race as well as finished 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would certainly make the playoffs till completion of the 2nd phase." This is actually miserable," Truex claimed just before he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I just hate it for my staff. ... They are worthy of far better. It's only an oversight." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was involved in an accident with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs was able to carry on and also made it through 12 aspects. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still would certainly have produced it, however it would possess been merely through a number of settings." Our experts merely got ran truly-- I would say unclean right certainly there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs mentioned. "That was absolutely closer than it ought to have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly bug throughout the whole entire race, sensation as if he was going to either throw up or even have a situation of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole nationality. He ended up 10th, and along with Larson completing fourth, beat Larson by one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season title costs 15 playoff aspects (points a driver can make use of to progress if he does not win in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd area is worth 10. Larson, with one of the most victories of any type of driver this year, would certainly have won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he captured the insect from his little one, said it was the worst he ever felt in a race cars and truck." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] awakened Sunday with the same hoping it will be actually gone again." I experienced great virtually completely up till the nationality. It only needs to have been actually the rub out of [Transform] 2 or something. It merely truly, really received negative due to the end of Stage 1. It simply stayed there the rest of the technique." Larson nearly gained the regular-season title even with skipping the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not just that," Larson stated. "I could have finished at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or finished at Chicago as well as not also been actually near today. I don't check out Indy as being actually the reason that. That's only part of my season. I wouldn't give up operating the Indy 500 for five benefit factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested decades covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene magazine and also The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive more from NASCAR Mug Collection Observe your preferences to receive relevant information concerning video games, news and also additional.