Harrison Burton took a shock Nascar Cup Series went at the Coke Zero sugar 400 as Daytona to book his place in the playoffs edging two-time Champion Kyle bus on the final lap and denying the veteran an automatic playoff birth Burton 23 of Wood Brothers Racing took the team's first victory since 2017 an emotional race as he set to depart the historic NASCAR outfit at the end of the 2024 season Bush who's out of the playoff standings with just one regular season race to go will need to take Victory next weekend at the cookout Southern 500 as Darlington Raceway regardless of Bush's playoff status and no race wins in 2024 youngster Burton hasn't forgotten what the legend has done for the sport and heaped praise on the 39-year-old following his shock Victory Burton said it's amazing it's been the hardest three years of my life obviously the hardest three years for some of these guys lives to win in the way we just did to beat the best in the business Kyle Bush across the line it's pretty fantastic Burton couldn't hold back his emotions as he took the checkered flag it was with Brothers Racing's 100th Cup Series win and despite his pending departure Burton paid tribute to the team I don't know I cried the whole Victory lap said Burton obviously I got fired from this job I wanted to do everything I could for the Wood Brothers they've given me an amazing opportunity and Life to get them 100 wins on my way out it's amazing we're in the playoffs now as for Bush he's remaining optimistic that he can snatch an automatic playoff spot next week Darlington is a track that he has performed well at across his star started career yeah I mean we want to Bush said when asked if he wants to win next weekend's race we ran good there the first time I ran with these guys early last year but early this year we struggled mightily we'll just have to go with hopefully a really good package that works get our job done Bush admitted he was fortunate to finish second in the end just finished second Bush said post race it's all good we were really really really lucky tonight to miss a few of the crashes just real proud of everybody crew chief Randall Bernette all the guys at RCR ACR did a great job brought a fast car we'll take this got a good little stretch going with these last three weeks and hope we can do what we need to do next week the only shot at Victory that bush had on the final lap was wrecking Burton an action not conceivable in his mind Austin Dylan saw his automatic playoff birth strip in recent weeks after wrecking Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin's races at the cookout 400 to win I haven't seen any of it just from what I recall we got off of turn two somehow the bottom Lane got discombobulated broke all of our momentum Bush concluded the Top Lane just rolled once they got in front with as little as energy as there was with the lack of cars that there were it was hard to make anything happen from turn four to start finish besides just flat Health wrecking him there was nothing else I could