.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Pursuit Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that released him in to the NASCAR Mug Set playoffs while delivering a crushing blow to drivers intending to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th driver to make a playoff area along with a succeed, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was actually going to be among those do-or-die instants," Briscoe mentioned. "Our team spoke about it before the nationality today, this is the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our experts carried out all night long, I recognized our team will remain in the mix." Our team executed. And we resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the reduced by six factors while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 aspects. For much of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be to become in a tight struggle for the ultimate playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that also went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the ultimate two regular-season ethnicities." Our ideal wasn't acceptable-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and Gibbs in the playoffs are Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champ), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second successive week, a driver requiring a succeed to make the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the race 18th in the status as well as 114 factors responsible for the playoff deadline, meaning he possessed no other pathway to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually moreover reality that made this an exhilarating minute. He earned a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is shutting in the end of the period. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless touch, drives the team's iconic No. 14 auto that was initial driven by Tony Stewart." It's huge," Briscoe mentioned. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the automobile I cheered for growing. I've seen that car win time as well as time and time again, win a champion."' I was crying'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Southern five hundred Busch, that was on a little fresher tires by the end, just could not get Briscoe and missed the playoffs for the very first time since 2012." Our company failed to have a lot rate there with a bulk of the competition," Busch stated. "We were only bogged down in website traffic, and also our experts weren't capable to rise through there. " Once our company rose there, I believed that those final 3 or even four restarts, our experts were mosting likely to take a crack at running in the top-5. Yet after that we took a crack at for the succeed as well as merely could not make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him clean." Right here he is in 2nd. I feel like, 'You've got to be actually joking me-- I've operated 300 some laps to reach the top, now Kyle is going to swipe it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made the two playoff areas for winless vehicle drivers and also they each had some instants to sweat as both were associated with wrecks.Truex ended up making it by just 6 factors after entering into the nationality assured a spot if there was a repeat champion. He ravaged on the 2nd lap of the race and finished 36th, certainly not understanding if he will create the playoffs till completion of the second phase." This is unpleasant," Truex said prior to he understood whether he made the playoffs. "I simply hate it for my staff. ... They ought to have far better. It's merely an oversight." NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was actually associated with a wreckage along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loosened while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to proceed and made it by 12 aspects. If he had been knocked out of the race, he likely still would certainly possess produced it, however it will possess been merely by a number of postures." Our team just received ran truly-- I would certainly point out filthy right there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs mentioned. "That was undoubtedly closer than it needs to possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a stomach pest throughout the whole race, emotion as if he was actually mosting likely to either throw up or even have an instance of diarrhea throughout the entire race. He ended up 10th, and with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff factors (aspects a motorist can easily use to evolve if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff rounds) while second place costs 10. Larson, with one of the most success of any motorist this year, would possess succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he caught the insect from his child, stated it was awful he ever experienced in a race cars and truck." It was horrible on Sunday," Reddick mentioned." [I] awakened Sunday with the very same wishing it would be actually returned." I really felt great virtually completely up till the race. It merely must possess been actually the rub out of [Turn] 2 or one thing. It just definitely, really acquired bad by the end of Stage 1. It only kept there the remainder of the means." Larson almost won the regular-season label regardless of overlooking the May ethnicity at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not simply that," Larson pointed out. "I could have finished at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even finished at Chicago and certainly not even been close today. I don't check out Indy as being the reason. That's just aspect of my period. I wouldn't lose hope operating the Indy 500 for 5 bonus offer points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent decades covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance journal as well as The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get a lot more coming from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your faves to obtain relevant information about video games, headlines as well as more.