.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe held back Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while delivering a squashing blow to drivers 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 ending up being the 14th motorist to get a playoff place with a win, leaving Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to make the 16-driver playoff field." I knew it was going to be just one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe claimed. "Our company spoke about it just before the ethnicity today, this is actually the last bullet in the chamber. ... If we carried out all evening long, I understood our team would certainly reside in the mix." Our experts executed. As well as our team were in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut through six points while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 factors. For much of the nationality, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to become in a strict struggle for the ultimate playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that additionally went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the final two regular-season ethnicities." Our absolute best had not been 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 champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Alarm, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second consecutive full week, a motorist needing to have a gain to bring in the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the ethnicity 18th in the status and also 114 factors behind the playoff deadline, indicating he possessed not one other path to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more than that simple fact that made this an electrifying moment. He earned a spot in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually closing by the end of the season. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, steers the crew's legendary No. 14 auto that was very first driven by Tony Stewart." It is actually huge," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas supporter. That is actually the vehicle I cheered for growing up. I've observed that auto succeed opportunity and over and over again, succeed a champion."' I was sobbing'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Southern 500 Busch, who performed somewhat fresher tires by the end, only could not find Briscoe and also skipped the playoffs for the very first time given that 2012." We really did not possess a lot speed there by means of a large number of the race," Busch pointed out. "We were actually only mired in traffic, and also our experts weren't able to get up via there. " But once our experts got out of bed certainly there, I believed that those last 3 or even four restarts, our team were mosting likely to take a crack at managing in the top-5. Yet at that point our company had a shot for the gain and also simply could not make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for racing him well-maintained." Here he is in 2nd. I feel like, 'You have actually reached be actually kidding me-- I have actually worked 300 some tours to come to the lead, now Kyle is actually mosting likely to swipe it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs earned the two playoff locations for winless chauffeurs and they both had some instants to sweat as each were actually involved in wrecks.Truex ended up making it through merely six points after going into the ethnicity promised a spot if there was actually a loyal victor. He ravaged on the second lap of the race and finished 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would bring in the playoffs till completion of the 2nd stage." This is unpleasant," Truex claimed before he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just dislike it for my crew. ... They are worthy of far better. It is actually simply an oversight." NASCAR Mug Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs managed to continue as well as made it by 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still will possess created it, however it will possess been merely by a number of postures." Our team just obtained ran actually-- I would state unclean right there certainly-- that was unfavorable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was actually certainly closer than it ought to have been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly insect throughout the entire race, emotion as if he was going to either throw up or even have a case of diarrhea throughout the whole entire nationality. He ended up 10th, and along with Larson ending up fourth, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff points (aspects a motorist can easily make use of to advance if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while second location is worth 10. Larson, along with the best victories of any sort of driver this year, would certainly possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he recorded the insect from his little one, claimed it was the most awful he ever felt in an ethnicity vehicle." It was actually horrible on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] got up Sunday with the same hoping it will be gone again." I felt excellent practically completely up until the nationality. It just should have been actually the rub out of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It only actually, truly obtained bad by the end of Phase 1. It merely remained there the rest of the technique." Larson almost won the regular-season headline despite missing the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not simply that," Larson mentioned. "I might possess ended up at Michigan or finished at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and not even been shut today. I don't take a look at Indy as being actually the main reason why. That's only component of my season. I wouldn't surrender running the Indy five hundred for 5 incentive aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually spent decades covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive even more coming from NASCAR Cup Set Observe your faves to obtain info about activities, news and even more.