.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that introduced him right into the NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs while delivering a squashing blow to vehicle drivers wanting to make 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 coming to be the 14th chauffeur to earn a playoff place along with a gain, leaving Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to create the 16-driver playoff field." I understood it was actually visiting be just one of those do-or-die minutes," Briscoe stated. "Our experts referred to it prior to the ethnicity today, this is the final bullet in the chamber. ... If our company implemented all evening long, I understood our team would certainly reside in the mix." We performed. And also our team resided in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher missed out on the cut by 6 points while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 aspects. For a lot of the ethnicity, Buescher and also Wallace appeared to become in a strict fight for the final playoff place while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that also went winless this year, came up short as he completed second in the last 2 regular-season nationalities." Our finest wasn't adequate-- as straightforward 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, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and also Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the second consecutive full week, a motorist needing to have a win to create the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered into the ethnicity 18th in the status and 114 factors behind the playoff cutoff, indicating he had nothing else road to the playoffs other than to win.But it was more reality that created this an electrifying instant. He got a location in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is actually finalizing by the end of the season. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, steers the team's iconic No. 14 automobile that was first steered through Tony Stewart." It's huge," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas enthusiast. That's the car I cheered for growing. I have actually seen that automobile win opportunity and also over and over again, win a champion."' I was actually crying'-- Pursuit Briscoe on winning Southern five hundred Busch, that performed a little fresher tires by the end, only couldn't get Briscoe and missed the playoffs for the very first time due to the fact that 2012." We really did not possess much velocity there via a majority of the competition," Busch stated. "Our experts were actually only snared in website traffic, and our company weren't capable to get out of bed via there. " Once we stood up there certainly, I believed that those last 3 or four restarts, we were visiting have a shot managing in the top-5. Yet after that we had a shot for the succeed and also just couldn't make it apex." Briscoe gave thanks to Busch for dashing him well-maintained." Listed here he remains in 2nd. I'm like, 'You have actually got to be joking me-- I have actually functioned 300 some laps to come to the top, today Kyle is heading to take it from our company,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs got the two playoff locations for winless chauffeurs as well as they each had some minutes to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex wound up creating it through simply six factors after entering the ethnicity assured a place if there was actually a loyal champion. He ravaged on the 2nd tour of the nationality and also completed 36th, certainly not recognizing if he would certainly bring in the playoffs up until the end of the second phase." This is actually difficult," Truex pointed out prior to he recognized whether he made the playoffs. "I just hate it for my crew. ... They are entitled to much better. It's merely a blunder." NASCAR Cup Collection: Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was actually involved in an accident along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry got loosened while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs managed to carry on and made it by 12 aspects. If he had actually been knocked out of the competition, he likely still would have made it, however it would certainly possess been actually only through a number of placements." Our company merely acquired managed truly-- I will say grimy right certainly there-- that was regrettable," Gibbs claimed. "That was certainly closer than it must have been actually." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick fought a tummy pest throughout the whole nationality, feeling as if he was mosting likely to either vomit or even possess a scenario of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire race. He ended up 10th, as well as with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season label deserves 15 playoff factors (factors a motorist may make use of to accelerate if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd spot deserves 10. Larson, along with the absolute most victories of any motorist this year, would have succeeded a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he recorded the pest from his youngster, stated it was the most awful he ever before really felt in an ethnicity automobile." It was actually horrendous on Sunday," Reddick mentioned." [I] got up Sunday with the exact same hoping it would certainly be gone again." I felt good pretty much all the way up until the race. It just must have been actually the polish off of [Turn] 2 or something. It simply really, really acquired bad by the end of Phase 1. It just kept there the remainder of the method." Larson almost won the regular-season label even with missing out on the May race at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not just that people," Larson stated. "I could have completed at Michigan or finished at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and certainly not also been actually close today. I don't look at Indy as being the reason why. That is actually only portion of my period. I definitely would not lose hope managing the Indy five hundred for five benefit points." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested many years dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with assignments at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Performance magazine and also The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive even more coming from NASCAR Mug Collection Follow your faves to get details regarding activities, news and additional.