Five laps was never going to be enough and it was obvious from the moment Jeff Gordon first pulled onto the infield grass.

Brandon Overton didn’t end up on top of the Dirt Late Model world without taking his share of hard knocks. The 30-year-old star from Evans, Ga., experienced plenty of trials and tribulations on his way to a historic $273,000 sweep of the double Dreams week at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 12) — With his successful early trips to Eldora Speedway in the mid-2000s, a young Chris Madden earned a reputation as a likely contender any time he ventured north to Ohio for one of the historic half-mile track’s crown jewel races. The Gray Court, S.C., driver who cut his teeth on the red clay ovals of the southeast was quickly earmarked as a likely future big race winner at Eldora’s hallowed high banks.

ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 12) — Eldora Speedway’s pit area exploded into a cauldron of accusation and innuendo as soon as Brandon Overton swept the first half of the double Dreams week on Wednesday and Thursday. It didn’t let up when the Evans, Ga., standout continued his assault on the racing extravaganza with a victory in Friday’s 25-lap preliminary feature.

A by-the-numbers review of Brandon Overton’s four-day sweep of Dream action June 9-12 at Eldora Speedway, in Rossburg, Ohio:

ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 11) — After hearing that Brandon Overton had spun a zero on Eldora Speedway’s casino-style inversion wheel at the conclusion of Friday’s Dream XXVI preliminary night program, Jonathan Davenport summed up Overton’s trip to Eldora’s double Dirt Late Model Dreams quite succinctly.