.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe resisted Kyle Busch for a walk-off success Sunday that launched him right into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while providing a crushing blow to motorists planning to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe caught the regular-season finale as he led the final 26 laps of the Southern five hundred at Darlington Raceway in becoming the 14th motorist to gain a playoff location along with a win, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless vehicle drivers to make the 16-driver playoff area." I knew it was actually mosting likely to be among those do-or-die instants," Briscoe claimed. "We talked about it before the race today, this is the last bullet in the enclosure. ... If our experts executed all evening long, I understood we would certainly remain in the mix." Our experts implemented. And we remained in the mix by the end." Chris Buescher overlooked the reduced by 6 points while Bubba Wallace skipped it through 27 factors. For a lot of the race, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to be in a limited battle for the ultimate playoff area 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 final two regular-season races." Our greatest wasn't adequate-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex and also 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 as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd consecutive full week, a driver needing a win to create the playoffs created it occur: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe entered the ethnicity 18th in the status and 114 factors behind the playoff deadline, meaning he had not one other course to the playoffs except to win.But it was actually moreover fact that made this an electrifying instant. He gained a place in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Dashing, which is finalizing in the end of the period. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless streak, drives the crew's iconic No. 14 automobile that was first steered through Tony Stewart." It's huge," Briscoe mentioned. "I am actually a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That's the car I cheered for growing. I have actually observed that automobile win time and also over and over again, succeed a championship."' I was actually shedding tears'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Southern 500 Busch, who performed somewhat fresher tires in the end, only could not get Briscoe and also missed out on the playoffs for the very first time since 2012." Our experts really did not possess a lot speed there by means of a large number of the competition," Busch claimed. "Our experts were merely bogged down in traffic, and also our company weren't capable to get up with there. " Once our company got up certainly there, I felt like those final three or four restarts, we were actually visiting take a crack at operating in the top-5. But at that point we took a crack at for the win as well as simply couldn't create it apex." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him well-maintained." Listed below he remains in 2nd. I resemble, 'You have actually reached be actually kidding me-- I have actually worked 300 some tours to reach the lead, right now Kyle is visiting steal it from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And AdvanceTruex and also Gibbs earned the 2 playoff areas for winless vehicle drivers and they both possessed some minutes to sweat as each were associated with wrecks.Truex ended up creating it by merely 6 points after getting into the nationality promised a location if there was actually a replay victor. He wrecked on the 2nd tour of the nationality as well as finished 36th, not understanding if he would create the playoffs up until the end of the second stage." This is difficult," Truex mentioned just before he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just loathe it for my team. ... They ought to have much better. It's merely an error." NASCAR Cup Series: Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was involved in a wreckage with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry acquired loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and also Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to carry on as well as made it by 12 factors. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the competition, he likely still would have created it, yet it would certainly have been actually simply by a number of postures." Our company simply acquired managed truly-- I will say dirty right certainly there-- that was actually unfortunate," Gibbs pointed out. "That was actually most definitely closer than it should have been." Reddick Courage Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick combated a belly bug throughout the whole entire nationality, sensation as if he was actually visiting either throw up or possess an instance of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole nationality. He ended up 10th, as well as with Larson completing 4th, exhausted Larson through one aspect for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff aspects (aspects a driver can use to advance if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff shots) while second area is worth 10. Larson, along with one of the most triumphes of any kind of motorist this year, would possess won a tiebreaker.Reddick, that feels he caught the pest coming from his little one, claimed it was the worst he ever before felt in an ethnicity automobile." It was dreadful on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] woke up Sunday along with the exact same hoping it would be actually gone again." I experienced great virtually completely up until the nationality. It only must possess been the bump off of [Switch] 2 or something. It just definitely, truly obtained negative due to the end of Phase 1. It only remained there the rest of the method." Larson nearly won the regular-season title even with overlooking the May race at Charlotte while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually not only that," Larson claimed. "I could possibly possess completed at Michigan or even finished at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and also certainly not also been actually close today. I do not look at Indy as being actually the main reason why. That is actually simply part of my time. I wouldn't surrender operating the Indy five hundred for 5 benefit aspects." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested many years covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, along with assignments at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene magazine and also The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get much more from NASCAR Mug Collection Observe your preferences to acquire details regarding video games, headlines and more.