.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that introduced him into the NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs while supplying a pulverizing blow to vehicle drivers intending to create the playoffs on points.Briscoe recorded the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th motorist to get a playoff place with a gain, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. as well as Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to make the 16-driver playoff area." I knew it was actually mosting likely to be one of those do-or-die instants," Briscoe pointed out. "We referred to it just before the ethnicity today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our experts carried out all evening long, I recognized our company would certainly reside in the mix." Our team executed. And also our team were in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the reduced by 6 factors while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 points. For a lot of the race, Buescher as well as Wallace seemed to be to become in a limited war for the final playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who likewise went winless this year, lost as he ended up second in the final 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our finest had not been sufficient-- as straightforward as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also 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 motorist requiring a gain to bring in the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got in the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 points responsible for the playoff cutoff, indicating he had not one other path to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more than that simple fact that created this an exhilarating instant. He made an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is shutting in the end of the season. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, steers the staff's well-known No. 14 cars and truck that was actually 1st steered by Tony Stewart." It is actually huge," Briscoe claimed. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That is actually the auto I cheered for maturing. I have actually viewed that auto gain opportunity as well as time and time again, win a championship."' I was actually sobbing'-- Chase Briscoe on winning Southern 500 Busch, that was on somewhat fresher tires by the end, merely could not catch Briscoe as well as missed the playoffs for the first time considering that 2012." Our company failed to have much velocity there with a large number of the competition," Busch mentioned. "Our team were actually merely stuck in visitor traffic, and our team weren't able to rise with there. " But once our experts rose certainly there, I believed that those final three or even four restarts, our experts were visiting have a shot managing in the top-5. Yet then we took a crack at for the gain as well as only could not make it apex." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him clean." Listed here he remains in second. I'm like, 'You've reached be actually joking me-- I have actually worked 300 some tours to reach the lead, right now Kyle is visiting swipe it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made both playoff locations for winless chauffeurs as well as they both had some instants to sweat as both were associated with wrecks.Truex found yourself making it by just 6 points after entering into the nationality assured a location if there was a regular victor. He wrecked on the 2nd tour of the ethnicity and also finished 36th, certainly not recognizing if he will create the playoffs until completion of the second stage." This is actually miserable," Truex said prior to he recognized whether he created the playoffs. "I only dislike it for my crew. ... They deserve much better. It is actually simply an oversight." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Highlights Gibbs was actually involved in an accident with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs managed to proceed and also made the cut by 12 aspects. If he had actually been actually knocked out of the race, he likely still will have produced it, however it will have been actually only through a number of positions." Our team just acquired operated really-- I will mention unclean right there-- that was unlucky," Gibbs said. "That was actually certainly closer than it should possess been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a belly insect throughout the whole entire ethnicity, feeling as if he was actually visiting either throw up or even possess an instance of diarrhea throughout the entire ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and also with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline deserves 15 playoff factors (aspects a motorist can easily make use of to advance if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while second area deserves 10. Larson, with the most victories of any driver this year, would certainly have succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who feels he captured the insect from his child, mentioned it was actually the most awful he ever before really felt in an ethnicity cars and truck." It was dreadful on Saturday," Reddick pointed out." [I] got out of bed Sunday with the same hoping it would be actually returned." I really felt excellent virtually completely up until the race. It simply has to possess been the polish off of [Transform] 2 or one thing. It only truly, really got poor by the end of Stage 1. It merely remained there the remainder of the way." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season title despite skipping the May ethnicity at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually certainly not simply that one," Larson stated. "I could possibly have finished at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even ended up at Chicago and also certainly not also been near today. I do not check out Indy as being actually the reason. That is actually merely aspect of my season. I definitely would not lose hope running the Indy five hundred for 5 incentive aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has devoted many years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance publication as well as The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get even more from NASCAR Mug Series Observe your preferences to receive relevant information regarding video games, headlines and additional.