.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off triumph Sunday that released him into the NASCAR Mug Series playoffs while delivering a squashing blow to motorists expecting to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe captured the regular-season finale as he led the ultimate 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in coming to be the 14th chauffeur to gain a playoff area along with a succeed, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to make the 16-driver playoff industry." I understood it was actually mosting likely to be among those do-or-die moments," Briscoe stated. "Our company spoke about it just before the ethnicity today, this is actually the final bullet in the enclosure. ... If we performed all night long, I knew our team would remain in the mix." We performed. And also our team remained in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher skipped the cut through 6 aspects while Bubba Wallace missed it by 27 points. For a lot of the ethnicity, Buescher and also Wallace seemed to become in a limited struggle for the ultimate playoff location while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, that likewise went winless this year, lost as he finished second in the ultimate two regular-season races." Our ideal had not been satisfactory-- as easy 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, Hunt Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski Alex Bowman as well as Harrison Burton. Takeaways after the regular-season finale, where for the 2nd consecutive week, a driver needing to have a gain to bring in the playoffs created it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe got into the race 18th in the standings and 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, implying he possessed nothing else course to the playoffs except to win.But it was moreover simple fact that made this an exciting minute. He got an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Racing, which is closing in the end of the period. Briscoe, who snapped a 93-race winless touch, drives the group's legendary No. 14 auto that was actually 1st steered by Tony Stewart." It's substantial," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas follower. That's the auto I cheered for growing. I have actually found that automobile gain time as well as time and time again, succeed a champion."' I was wailing'-- Hunt Briscoe on gaining Southern five hundred Busch, who got on slightly fresher tires by the end, just couldn't see Briscoe and overlooked the playoffs for the first time because 2012." Our company really did not have much velocity there by means of a large number of the race," Busch claimed. "We were actually simply mired in website traffic, and also our experts weren't capable to stand up via there. " But once our team got up certainly there, I seemed like those last 3 or 4 restarts, we were visiting have a shot managing in the top-5. However after that our experts had a shot for the gain and also only couldn't make it apex." Briscoe thanked Busch for competing him well-maintained." Below he resides in second. I resemble, 'You've reached be actually joking me-- I have actually functioned 300 some tours to reach the lead, right now Kyle is going to swipe it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and Gibbs made the 2 playoff locations for winless drivers and also they both possessed some seconds to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex wound up making it by just six factors after entering into the nationality guaranteed a location if there was actually a regular champion. He damaged on the 2nd lap of the race and also finished 36th, certainly not understanding if he would create the playoffs till completion of the 2nd phase." This is miserable," Truex said before he understood whether he brought in the playoffs. "I just loathe it for my team. ... They are worthy of better. It is actually only an oversight." NASCAR Cup Collection: Cook Out Southern 500 Features Gibbs was associated with a wreck along with 23 laps to go when Josh Berry obtained loosened while three-wide with Gibbs as well as Hamlin. Gibbs was able to proceed and made the cut through 12 factors. If he had been actually knocked senseless of the race, he likely still will possess produced it, but it would possess been actually only through a couple of postures." Our team just got operated actually-- I would mention grimy right certainly there-- that was actually unfavorable," Gibbs said. "That was absolutely closer than it ought to possess been actually." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a stomach insect throughout the whole ethnicity, feeling as if he was actually heading to either regurgitate or have a case of looseness of the bowels throughout the entire nationality. He wound up 10th, as well as along with Larson completing fourth, beat Larson through one factor for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff factors (aspects a chauffeur can utilize to accelerate if he doesn't succeed in the three-race playoff rounds) while second spot is worth 10. Larson, with one of the most victories of any type of chauffeur this year, will possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, that thinks he caught the pest coming from his little one, said it was awful he ever before felt in an ethnicity cars and truck." It was dreadful on Saturday," Reddick stated." [I] got up Sunday with the exact same hoping it will be returned." I experienced really good essentially all the way up till the nationality. It merely has to have been actually the polish off of [Switch] 2 or something. It simply truly, really got negative by the end of Stage 1. It only stayed there the remainder of the method." Larson nearly succeeded the regular-season label in spite of missing the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500." It is actually certainly not only that," Larson pointed out. "I can have finished at Michigan or ended up at Iowa or completed at Chicago as well as certainly not also been actually close today. I don't consider Indy as being actually the reason why. That is actually simply component of my period. I would not lose hope operating the Indy 500 for 5 benefit aspects." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sporting Activities. He has invested decades covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with assignments at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene magazine as well as The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire even more coming from NASCAR Mug Series Observe your preferences to receive details concerning games, updates and even more.