Erik Jones struggles in final Coke Zero Sugar 400 race at Daytona

Erik Jones was unlucky successful the past contention of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 astatine Daytona International Speedway. There were galore contenders for the playoffs, however, yet Jones was incapable to unafraid his spot and marque the large move. 

At 1 point, Kyle Larson pushed him disconnected the line, and Erik Jones had nary country to respond successful that situation. 

He is not precisely definite what Larson wanted with that move, but the experienced operator shared everything with the assemblage aft the race.

"Chevrolet's and Toyota's don't lucifer the bumpers arsenic good arsenic the Fords, truthful I tried thing different," Larson said.

"I'm conscionable trying to deed him and get our enactment going," added large operator Dustin Longu of NBC Sports. "I consciousness similar you tin truly link and propulsion with the Fords. With the Toyotas and Chevys, we don't link the bumpers precise well, truthful I deliberation the bumps assistance the enactment determination forward. Maybe helium thinks differently. I deliberation I threw him disconnected equilibrium a small spot erstwhile and that's erstwhile I passed him.

Man, you're conscionable looking astatine immoderate rear bumper successful beforehand of you. You can't spot what's successful beforehand of them, truthful I'd person to spot the portion to adjacent cognize if I pushed him into the operator successful beforehand of him. I can't remember, there's truthful overmuch going connected astatine the end. We're each conscionable trying to determination our lines."

Jones reacts

Jones managed to get backmost to the top, finishing fifth, but that didn't assistance him overmuch due to the fact that helium had to triumph to unafraid the spot. Larson finished close down him successful sixth.

"I've got to inquire Kyle," Jones told Toby Christie of TobyChristie.com. 

"In the erstwhile attempt, you could spot that maine and 7 [Justin Haley] were moving good unneurotic and pushing for the lead. Even 22 [Joey Logano], 17 [Chris Buescher], we were each moving good unneurotic and pushing for the pb erstwhile we could, taking vantage of the opportunity. 5 [Larson] got down america and was ace aggressive, similar a bulldog charging astatine us. He kept throwing maine disconnected equilibrium a small spot much and it was excessively overmuch astatine once. Luckily we didn't crash.

I person to inquire him. I don't cognize what helium was thinking. It wasn't truly helping america determination forward, it was much slowing america down earlier I wholly mislaid control. I person to spot what helium was thinking."