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NASCAR takeways: Hunt Briscoe outduels Kyle Busch for last Cup playoff stain

.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.DARLINGTON, S.C.-- Chase Briscoe held off Kyle Busch for a walk-off victory Sunday that introduced him in to the NASCAR Mug Collection playoffs while providing a crushing blow to motorists intending to make the playoffs on points.Briscoe grabbed the regular-season finale as he led the last 26 tours of the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in ending up being the 14th chauffeur to earn a playoff spot with a win, leaving behind Martin Truex Jr. and also Ty Gibbs as the only winless chauffeurs to create the 16-driver playoff industry." I knew it was actually going to be one of those do-or-die moments," Briscoe claimed. "Our company talked about it before the ethnicity today, this is the last bullet in the chamber. ... If our team implemented all evening long, I understood our team will reside in the mix." Our team performed. And also our team resided in the mix at the end." Chris Buescher skipped the reduced through 6 factors while Bubba Wallace missed it through 27 points. For a lot of the race, Buescher and Wallace seemed to become in a strict battle for the final playoff spot while Kyle Larson led 263 of the 367 laps. Busch, who likewise went winless this year, lost as he completed second in the final 2 regular-season ethnicities." Our best wasn't adequate-- as easy as that," Wallace said.Joining Briscoe, Truex as well as Gibbs in the playoffs are actually Tyler Reddick (the regular-season champion), Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, 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 requiring a succeed to create the playoffs made it happen: Briscoe Win-And-InBriscoe went into the race 18th in the status as well as 114 points behind the playoff cutoff, meaning he possessed no other road to the playoffs apart from to win.But it was actually more truth that created this a thrilling second. He earned an area in the playoffs for Stewart-Haas Competing, which is actually finalizing in the end of the time. Briscoe, that broke a 93-race winless streak, drives the crew's famous No. 14 auto that was actually 1st driven through Tony Stewart." It's large," Briscoe pointed out. "I'm a diehard Stewart-Haas fan. That's the car I cheered for growing up. I have actually found that car win time and also over and over again, succeed a championship."' I was actually sobbing'-- Hunt Briscoe on winning Cook Out Southern 500 Busch, who got on somewhat fresher tires in the end, merely could not get Briscoe and also skipped the playoffs for the first time considering that 2012." Our company really did not have a lot speed there through a majority of the race," Busch pointed out. "Our experts were only mired in traffic, and also our team weren't capable to rise with there. " But once our team got out of bed there, I believed that those last three or four restarts, our team were visiting have a shot operating in the top-5. However after that our experts had a shot for the win as well as just could not make it up there." Briscoe said thanks to Busch for competing him clean." Here he remains in 2nd. I feel like, 'You have actually got to be joking me-- I have actually operated 300 some laps to reach the lead, right now Kyle is actually heading to swipe it coming from our team,'" Briscoe said.Wreck And also AdvanceTruex and Gibbs made the two playoff locations for winless vehicle drivers and they each possessed some minutes to sweat as each were involved in wrecks.Truex found yourself creating it through simply six points after entering the ethnicity assured a place if there was a loyal winner. He damaged on the 2nd tour of the race and also finished 36th, not recognizing if he would certainly bring in the playoffs up until completion of the second phase." This is difficult," Truex pointed out before he recognized whether he brought in the playoffs. "I merely despise it for my crew. ... They should have better. It's simply a mistake." NASCAR Mug Set: Cook Out Southern five hundred Highlights Gibbs was involved in a wreck along with 23 tours to go when Josh Berry obtained loose while three-wide along with Gibbs and Hamlin. Gibbs had the capacity to carry on and also made the cut through 12 points. If he had been knocked senseless of the race, he likely still would have created it, however it will possess been actually only by a number of placements." Our team simply obtained operated definitely-- I would say unclean right there-- that was unfortunate," Gibbs said. "That was certainly closer than it needs to have been." Reddick Guts Out Regular-Season TitleTyler Reddick battled a tummy insect throughout the entire ethnicity, sensation as if he was actually visiting either regurgitate or possess an instance of looseness of the bowels throughout the whole ethnicity. He wound up 10th, and along with Larson finishing 4th, exhausted Larson through one point for the regular-season title.The regular-season headline is worth 15 playoff factors (aspects a driver can make use of to accelerate if he doesn't win in the three-race playoff rounds) while second place costs 10. Larson, with the absolute most success of any kind of vehicle driver this year, would possess gained a tiebreaker.Reddick, who believes he captured the bug from his youngster, claimed it was actually the most awful he ever before felt in a race cars and truck." It was actually dreadful on Saturday," Reddick said." [I] woke up Sunday along with the same hoping it would be gone again." I felt good more or less all the way up until the nationality. It simply should have been actually the rub out of [Turn] 2 or one thing. It merely definitely, actually got bad due to the end of Phase 1. It merely stayed there the rest of the means." Larson nearly won the regular-season headline in spite of missing the May nationality at Charlotte nc while he completed in the rain-delayed Indianapolis five hundred." It is actually certainly not merely that a person," Larson stated. "I can possess completed at Michigan or even ended up at Iowa or even completed at Chicago and not even been actually shut today. I do not consider Indy as being the reason. That's only aspect of my season. I definitely would not give up operating the Indy five hundred for 5 benefit factors." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested decades covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Headlines, NASCAR Performance magazine and also The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire even more from NASCAR Mug Set Observe your favorites to get details regarding video games, updates and more.