.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that launched him into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while providing a squashing draft to vehicle drivers intending to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season ending as he led the last 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th motorist to make a playoff place with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to make the 16-driver playoff field." I understood it was actually going to be one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe said. "Our team discussed it prior to the ethnicity today, this is actually the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If we implemented all evening long, I knew our team would remain in the mix." We executed. As well as our company resided in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher missed the reduced through six aspects while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 points. For much of the ethnicity, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to become in a limited battle for the ultimate playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, that also went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the ultimate pair of regular-season ethnicities." Our ideal had not been adequate-- as basic 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 as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second consecutive full week, a driver needing a win to bring in the playoffs created it take place: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the race 18th in the status and 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, suggesting he had no other pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was actually moreover fact that made this an exhilarating moment. He got an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is actually finalizing by the end of the season. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, drives the crew's renowned No. 14 auto that was actually initial driven through Tony Stewart." It's big," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That is actually the cars and truck I cheered for maturing. I've observed that car gain time and also over and over again, gain a champion."' I was shedding tears'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, that performed a little fresher tires at the end, only could not get Briscoe and also missed the playoffs for the very first time due to the fact that 2012." Our experts really did not possess much rate there by means of a large number of the competition," Busch pointed out. "Our team were actually simply stuck in traffic, and also our team weren't capable to get out of bed via there. " But once we got up certainly there, I believed that those last three or even four restarts, our experts were visiting take a crack at running in the top-5. Yet at that point our company took a crack at for the win as well as simply could not make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for racing him clean." Here he remains in 2nd. I feel like, 'You have actually reached be joking me-- I've worked 300 some tours to come to the top, now Kyle is going to swipe it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs made the two playoff places for winless motorists as well as they both possessed some instants to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself creating it through merely six factors after entering into the nationality ensured an area if there was a replay victor. He damaged on the 2nd lap of the race as well as ended up 36th, not knowing if he would make the playoffs until the end of the 2nd phase." This is actually miserable," Truex mentioned prior to he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just detest it for my team. ... They ought to have better. It's just a mistake." NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out Southern 500 Emphasizes Gibbs was actually associated with a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry got loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs managed to continue as well as made the cut by 12 factors. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the competition, he likely still would certainly have created it, however it would certainly have been actually merely through a number of placements." Our experts merely got operated definitely-- I will state dirty right there certainly-- that was regrettable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was actually most definitely closer than it needs to have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a tummy insect throughout the whole race, feeling as if he was actually visiting either regurgitate or even have a situation of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole entire nationality. He wound up 10th, and also with Larson finishing fourth, beat Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season title is worth 15 playoff factors (aspects a chauffeur can easily utilize to progress if he does not succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd place costs 10. Larson, along with the most success of any type of vehicle driver this year, would certainly have gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he captured the insect from his little one, stated it was actually the worst he ever experienced in a race car." It was horrible on Saturday," Reddick said." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the very same hoping it would certainly be actually returned." I really felt great essentially right up until the ethnicity. It only should have been the rub out of [Turn] 2 or something. It only truly, actually acquired bad by the end of Phase 1. It merely stayed there the rest of the method." Larson nearly won the regular-season label despite missing the May nationality at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually certainly not only that a person," Larson said. "I can have finished at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or finished at Chicago and also not also been actually near today. I don't look at Indy as being the main reason why. That's only part of my season. I definitely would not give up managing the Indy 500 for five bonus aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has devoted decades covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene magazine and also The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain extra from NASCAR Mug Series Follow your favorites to get information concerning video games, news and also more.