Erik Jones has experienced this movie before, and it seems to be growing a little old.

A lap 5 crash in Turn 3 of the Toyota Owners 400 ended Jones’ day before it began at Richmond International Raceway. Even worse, it junked a car that had shown speed in practice by running the fastest lap in Saturday’s early session in addition to leading the way in the best 10 consecutive lap average category.

Worse yet, Jones has shown the ability to contend with the leaders in each of his nine races to date. But rarely have the results shown it.

“It sucks,” Jones said. “We’ve been getting a lot of stage points, been running up front and should have had a lot of good finishes. I think we had another good racecar today, one that could have gotten up into the top 10, got us some more stage points and got us a good finish out of it.

“Guys just – there’s got to be more respect shown. I mean, we’re lap 1 and three-wide running people into the wall. It’s really frustrating.”

The No. 77 Toyota slammed the outside wall after cutting a left front tire, the result of having been sandwiched into the wall a few laps earlier. Jones was on the outside of a three-wide group, including the No. 5 of Kasey Kahne, on whom he put the blame for running him into the wall.

“That’s unfortunate, it’s 400 laps,” Jones said. “I just wish there was a little bit more patience at times, it’s frustrating. I was just trying to get this race going and we’re racing hard. It’s a bummer. We cut a left front a couple laps later and got into the wall, our day’s over. Those guys get to keep racing. It sucks. But we’ll just have to move on.”

The first driver out of the race, Jones will be credited with a last-place finish, 38th. It’s his second DNF of the season. He has just one top-10 in nine races.

“Just a heartbreaking day,” Jones said. “It’s not what we wanted, but we’ll just have to come back next week, bring another fast race car and try to run up front again.”