.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while delivering a pulverizing blow to chauffeurs wanting to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th vehicle driver to make a playoff place along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless drivers to create the 16-driver playoff area." I knew it was heading to be one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe claimed. "Our company talked about it prior to the race today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we implemented all night long, I recognized our experts would be in the mix." We performed. As well as our company resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed the cut through 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 aspects. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher and Wallace seemed to become in a tight battle for the last playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who likewise went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the last two regular-season nationalities." Our ideal had not been adequate-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as 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, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd successive full week, a driver needing to have a win to create the playoffs made it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the ethnicity 18th in the status and also 114 points responsible for the playoff deadline, implying he had nothing else road to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually moreover fact that made this an exhilarating minute. He made a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is shutting in the end of the period. Briscoe, who broke a 93-race winless streak, steers the group's famous No. 14 vehicle that was actually first driven through Tony Stewart." It is actually substantial," Briscoe mentioned. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the cars and truck I cheered for growing up. I've seen that car succeed opportunity as well as over and over again, gain a championship."' I was weeping'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Southern five hundred Busch, who was on a little fresher tires at the end, simply could not find Briscoe as well as missed the playoffs for the very first time due to the fact that 2012." Our team really did not have much rate there via a majority of the competition," Busch said. "Our team were just bogged down in traffic, as well as our experts weren't able to rise via there. " But once our company rose certainly there, I thought that those last 3 or even 4 restarts, our team were mosting likely to take a crack at managing in the top-5. However at that point our company took a crack at for the win and simply couldn't make it up there." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him tidy." Here he resides in 2nd. I feel like, 'You have actually reached be joking me-- I have actually worked 300 some tours to get to the top, today Kyle is actually going to steal it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and Gibbs got the two playoff areas for winless motorists as well as they both possessed some minutes to sweat as both were associated with wrecks.Truex wound up making it by only 6 factors after getting in the ethnicity guaranteed a location if there was a repeat victor. He damaged on the second lap of the ethnicity and ended up 36th, certainly not understanding if he will make the playoffs until the end of the second phase." This is actually unpleasant," Truex said just before he understood whether he made the playoffs. "I only despise it for my group. ... They are worthy of much better. It is actually merely a blunder." NASCAR Mug Collection: Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was associated with a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry received loose while three-wide with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to carry on and also made the cut through 12 points. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would certainly possess produced it, however it would certainly possess been actually merely through a number of positions." Our company only obtained operated actually-- I will state unclean right there certainly-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs mentioned. "That was undoubtedly closer than it should possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly pest throughout the whole entire nationality, sensation as if he was mosting likely to either throw up or have a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire race. He ended up 10th, and along with Larson finishing fourth, exhausted Larson by one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season title deserves 15 playoff factors (points a vehicle driver can use to advance if he doesn't gain in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd location costs 10. Larson, along with the absolute most victories of any sort of vehicle driver this year, would possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he caught the bug from his kid, said it was the most awful he ever really felt in a nationality cars and truck." It was actually terrible on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] got out of bed Sunday along with the same wishing it will be actually returned." I really felt excellent more or less right up till the race. It simply needs to have been actually the rub out of [Transform] 2 or even something. It simply actually, actually received negative by the end of Phase 1. It simply stayed there the remainder of the method." Larson virtually won the regular-season label in spite of missing out on the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually not simply that one," Larson claimed. "I could possibly have completed at Michigan or completed at Iowa or completed at Chicago as well as certainly not even been actually close today. I do not examine Indy as being the reason that. That is actually simply portion of my season. I would not surrender running the Indy 500 for 5 incentive factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has devoted many years covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Performance publication as well as The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain a lot more from NASCAR Mug Set Observe your favorites to get details concerning games, updates and also additional.