On this planet of Nineteen Seventies automobile racing, Hurley Haywood was cool, calm and picked up. A five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, three-time Le Mans winner and Trans-Am champion, Haywood was a Hollywood archetype: a strikingly good-looking man introduced up by a very good Midwestern household. But Haywood was usually overshadowed by racing accomplice and risky mentor, Peter Gregg—the Batman to his Robin—whose abrupt suicide in 1980 shook the game to its core. And but Haywood had secrets and techniques of his personal. Regardless of a number of encounters with ladies, some that included public appearances alongside Penthouse fashions, he remained elusive about his private life. With deft use of archival footage and unique interviews that includes actor and fellow racer, Patrick Dempsey, Hurley reveals a higher perception into Haywood’s tightrope stroll between profession and sexuality, whereas posing the query—will motorsport ever be prepared for overtly LGBT racers?
