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If the expression holds true that everybody loves an underdog, race fans should be smitten with the results of the country’s biggest auto races this year.

Trevor Bayne shocked the motorsports world with his Daytona 500 win. The race was only his second career NASCAR Cup start and he did it from behind the wheel of the famed Wood Brothers entry. The Wood family has fielded a NASCAR team for generations and is highly revered. However, their most recent circuit victory was in 2001. When the Great American Race began the red and white number 21 was not high on the oddsmakers' list.

The Southern 500 run on Mother’s Day weekend on the tour’s oldest superspeedway was claimed by young Regan Smith for his first career Cup win. The Darlington Raceway has tremendous significance in NASCAR's history and the race ranks in the top five in prestige on the circuit.

My daughter Colleen loves the Disney princess movies. All of them. The ones that were made well before she was born, and even the ones made well before I was born. The time-tested Cinderella is a favorite to my 5-year-old.

The premise is similar among all of the animated films. Young attractive female meets young, attractive male and they are attracted to one another. Some villain or obstacle gets in the way, but is overcome leaving them with a lesson learned. The story ends with our two heroes together and “happily ever after.”

Daytona produced a few underdog heroes. Their “ever after” began when the 500’s checkered flag waved. Disney rarely produces a film that follows up on the prince and princess’s lives after they embrace and ride off in their carriage. But we do get to see our Speedweeks Cinderellas after the symbolic sunset walk.

Chapter two is called Phoenix. Chapter three is called Las Vegas. Chapter four is called Bristol, and so on.