.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that launched him into the NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs while providing a pulverizing blow to motorists hoping to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th chauffeur to gain a playoff area with a win, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff field." I recognized it was going to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe mentioned. "We referred to it prior to the nationality today, this is the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If our company performed all night long, I understood we will reside in the mix." Our team executed. And also we remained in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher skipped the cut by six aspects while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 points. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher as well as Wallace appeared to be in a strict struggle for the ultimate playoff area 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 races." Our ideal had not been acceptable-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as 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, Pursuit Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the second consecutive full week, a motorist needing a win to bring in the playoffs made it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the nationality 18th in the status and also 114 points behind the playoff deadline, meaning he possessed not one other pathway to the playoffs other than to win.But it was moreover fact that made this an exciting minute. He earned an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually closing in the end of the season. Briscoe, who popped a 93-race winless streak, steers the staff's renowned No. 14 vehicle that was first driven by Tony Stewart." It is actually massive," Briscoe said. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That's the vehicle I cheered for growing. I have actually observed that cars and truck gain time and over and over again, gain a championship."' I was wailing'-- Pursuit Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, that was on somewhat fresher tires at the end, just couldn't see Briscoe and also overlooked the playoffs for the first time considering that 2012." Our team really did not have a lot speed there by means of a majority of the competition," Busch mentioned. "We were just stuck in web traffic, and also our experts weren't capable to rise by means of there. " But once our experts got out of bed there, I felt like those last three or even 4 restarts, our team were mosting likely to take a crack at running in the top-5. But after that our company took a crack at for the win and merely couldn't make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him well-maintained." Below he remains in second. I'm like, 'You've got to be actually joking me-- I have actually worked 300 some laps to come to the lead, now Kyle is heading to steal it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck As well as AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs earned both playoff places for winless motorists and they both had some minutes to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex ended up making it through only 6 points after getting in the race assured an area if there was a repeat champion. He ravaged on the 2nd tour of the race as well as ended up 36th, not knowing if he would bring in the playoffs until completion of the second stage." This is awful," Truex stated just before he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I only dislike it for my crew. ... They are worthy of far better. It is actually merely a blunder." NASCAR Mug Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Emphasizes Gibbs was actually involved in a wreck with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide along with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to continue as well as made it by 12 aspects. If he had actually been knocked out of the race, he likely still would possess created it, but it would certainly possess been actually just through a couple of positions." Our company simply got ran definitely-- I would certainly mention unclean right there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs pointed out. "That was certainly closer than it ought to possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a tummy bug throughout the whole nationality, feeling as if he was mosting likely to either regurgitate or even have a situation of diarrhea throughout the whole ethnicity. He wound up 10th, as well as along with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson by one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline deserves 15 playoff points (factors a vehicle driver may make use of to accelerate if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff shots) while 2nd area deserves 10. Larson, with the most triumphes of any kind of chauffeur this year, would certainly possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he recorded the bug coming from his kid, claimed it was the worst he ever really felt in a race automobile." It was actually horrible on Saturday," Reddick said." [I] woke up Sunday along with the exact same wishing it would certainly be gone again." I really felt great more or less all the way up till the nationality. It simply should possess been actually the polish off of [Transform] 2 or something. It only definitely, definitely obtained poor by the end of Stage 1. It just kept there the rest of the means." Larson nearly won the regular-season title in spite of missing the May race at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It's not just that one," Larson stated. "I could possess ended up at Michigan or even completed at Iowa or even ended up at Chicago and also certainly not also been actually close today. I don't check out Indy as being actually the main reason why. That's simply component of my season. I would not quit managing the Indy five hundred for 5 benefit factors." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene magazine as well as The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Obtain even more from NASCAR Cup Collection Follow your preferences to receive relevant information regarding video games, information as well as even more.