.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while delivering a squashing blow to drivers planning to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th chauffeur to get a playoff location with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I knew it was actually visiting be just one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe pointed out. "Our experts referred to it just before the ethnicity today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our team executed all night long, I recognized we will remain in the mix." Our team executed. And also our company resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the reduced by 6 factors while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 aspects. For a lot of the race, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to be to be in a tight war for the final playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who also went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the ultimate 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our absolute best had not been satisfactory-- as simple as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also 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, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second successive full week, a vehicle driver requiring a gain to make the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the ethnicity 18th in the status and also 114 points responsible for the playoff cutoff, implying he had nothing else course to the playoffs except to win.But it was more than that truth that made this an exhilarating second. He gained an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually closing in the end of the period. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, drives the team's well-known No. 14 cars and truck that was initial driven by Tony Stewart." It is actually massive," Briscoe mentioned. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That is actually the auto I cheered for growing up. I've seen that cars and truck win time and time and time again, gain a championship."' I was actually shedding tears'-- Pursuit Briscoe on succeeding Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, who got on somewhat fresher tires at the end, only couldn't see Briscoe and missed out on the playoffs for the very first time given that 2012." We didn't possess a lot speed there via a bulk of the competition," Busch stated. "We were actually only snared in web traffic, as well as our company weren't able to get out of bed by means of there. " But once we got up certainly there, I felt like those last three or 4 restarts, our experts were actually heading to take a crack at running in the top-5. But at that point we took a crack at for the gain as well as only could not create it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for competing him clean." Below he remains in second. I'm like, 'You have actually come to be kidding me-- I've operated 300 some laps to get to the lead, today Kyle is actually mosting likely to swipe it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made the two playoff spots for winless vehicle drivers as well as they both possessed some moments to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex ended up creating it by simply six points after entering into the nationality ensured a place if there was actually a regular champion. He wrecked on the second lap of the ethnicity and ended up 36th, not understanding if he will create the playoffs till completion of the 2nd phase." This is awful," Truex stated just before he knew whether he created the playoffs. "I merely detest it for my team. ... They are worthy of better. It is actually merely a mistake." NASCAR Mug Set: Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was involved in a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs was able to carry on and made the cut by 12 aspects. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would certainly have created it, but it will possess been merely through a number of settings." Our company merely got operated really-- I would mention unclean right there-- that was actually unlucky," Gibbs claimed. "That was actually certainly closer than it needs to possess been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a tummy pest throughout the whole entire nationality, emotion as if he was actually mosting likely to either regurgitate or possess an instance of diarrhea throughout the whole entire ethnicity. He ended up 10th, and also with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season label deserves 15 playoff factors (points a chauffeur can easily make use of to accelerate if he does not win in the three-race playoff rounds) while second spot deserves 10. Larson, along with the absolute most triumphes of any type of chauffeur this year, will have succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who thinks he recorded the insect coming from his child, claimed it was awful he ever before really felt in a race automobile." It was horrendous on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] awakened Sunday with the same hoping it would be actually gone again." I really felt good essentially all the way up till the race. It just should possess been actually the polish off of [Switch] 2 or something. It simply truly, definitely got bad by the end of Stage 1. It merely remained there the remainder of the method." Larson almost succeeded the regular-season headline regardless of missing the May race at Charlotte nc while he competed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually not only that one," Larson stated. "I might have finished at Michigan or completed at Iowa or even ended up at Chicago and also not even been close today. I do not examine Indy as being the reason that. That is actually just portion of my period. I wouldn't give up operating the Indy 500 for five perk points." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has devoted decades covering motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene journal as well as The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get more from NASCAR Mug Set Follow your faves to obtain relevant information concerning activities, information and more.