Hurley (2019)

In the world of 1970s car racing Hurley Haywood was cool calm and collected A fivetime 24 Hours of Daytona winner threetime Le Mans winner and TransAm champion Haywood was a Hollywood archetype a strikingly handsome man brought up by a good Midwestern family Yet Haywood was often overshadowed by racing partner and volatile mentor Peter Greggthe Batman to his Robinwhose abrupt suicide in 1980 shook the sport to its core And yet Haywood had secrets of his own Despite multiple encounters with women some that included public appearances alongside Penthouse models he remained elusive about his personal life With deft use of archival footage and exclusive interviews featuring actor and fellow racer Patrick Dempsey Hurley reveals a greater insight into Haywoods tightrope walk between career and sexuality while posing the questionwill motorsport ever be ready for openly LGBT racers