.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Hunt Briscoe postponed Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that released him right into the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while supplying a pulverizing blow to vehicle drivers planning to make 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 coming to be the 14th vehicle driver to get a playoff place along with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless motorists to create the 16-driver playoff field." I understood it was heading to be one of those do-or-die seconds," Briscoe said. "Our team referred to it just before the nationality today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our team executed all night long, I recognized we would certainly be in the mix." We carried out. And also we remained in the mix in the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced through 6 points while Bubba Wallace overlooked it by 27 factors. For a lot of the nationality, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be in a limited war for the ultimate playoff area while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 tours. Busch, who additionally went winless this year, came up short as he finished second in the last two regular-season ethnicities." Our ideal had not been sufficient-- as basic as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as 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, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman and Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season ending, where for the 2nd successive week, a driver needing to have a gain to make the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the ethnicity 18th in the status as well as 114 points behind the playoff deadline, suggesting he had nothing else path to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was more than that truth that created this a thrilling second. He got a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is actually shutting in the end of the time. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless streak, steers the crew's renowned No. 14 automobile that was actually 1st steered through Tony Stewart." It is actually massive," Briscoe stated. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That's the auto I cheered for growing. I have actually viewed that car win opportunity and over and over again, gain a championship."' I was actually wailing'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, that was on slightly fresher tires at the end, just couldn't see Briscoe and also missed out on the playoffs for the very first time considering that 2012." Our experts failed to have much speed there via a bulk of the competition," Busch mentioned. "Our company were actually only bogged down in traffic, and also our team weren't able to stand up by means of there. " Once our experts got out of bed there, I thought that those final 3 or even four restarts, our team were mosting likely to have a shot running in the top-5. Yet then our company had a shot for the gain as well as only could not create it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for racing him clean." Below he resides in second. I resemble, 'You have actually got to be joking me-- I have actually functioned 300 some laps to come to the lead, now Kyle is visiting swipe it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex as well as Gibbs made both playoff places for winless vehicle drivers as well as they each possessed some instants to sweat as each were actually associated with wrecks.Truex wound up making it by only six aspects after going into the nationality promised a spot if there was actually a replay winner. He ravaged on the 2nd tour of the race and also completed 36th, not understanding if he would create the playoffs till completion of the second stage." This is unpleasant," Truex said prior to he understood whether he created the playoffs. "I merely hate it for my crew. ... They ought to have better. It's only a blunder." NASCAR Cup Set: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with a wreck along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry acquired loosened while three-wide with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the ability to proceed and also made it through 12 points. If he had actually been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still would possess made it, however it will possess been actually only by a number of placements." We just acquired managed truly-- I would mention filthy right certainly there-- that was actually regrettable," Gibbs stated. "That was absolutely closer than it needs to possess been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy pest throughout the whole entire ethnicity, emotion as if he was actually going to either throw up or even possess an instance of diarrhea throughout the entire race. He ended up 10th, and also with Larson ending up 4th, exhausted Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline costs 15 playoff points (points a driver can easily utilize to evolve if he does not gain in the three-race playoff rounds) while 2nd area deserves 10. Larson, along with the most success of any kind of driver this year, will possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he recorded the pest from his kid, said it was actually awful he ever felt in an ethnicity car." It was actually horrendous on Saturday," Reddick claimed." [I] woke up Sunday with the very same wishing it will be actually gone again." I felt good essentially right up until the race. It merely has to possess been actually the bump off of [Switch] 2 or even something. It just really, truly acquired bad due to the end of Stage 1. It only stayed there the remainder of the technique." Larson virtually succeeded the regular-season headline in spite of missing out on the May ethnicity at Charlotte while he contended in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It's certainly not just that one," Larson said. "I can have ended up at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or ended up at Chicago and not also been actually close today. I do not check out Indy as being actually the reason. That's only aspect of my period. I definitely would not give up managing the Indy 500 for five reward aspects." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually spent years dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal as well as The (Daytona Seashore) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get a lot more from NASCAR Mug Series Follow your faves to receive details regarding games, news and more.