Sam Posey

THE SPEED ODYSSEY takes you on the wildest ride in road racing. 1966 - 1973 CAN AM CHALLENGE CUP: An epic adventure in an era of change and discovery, where heroic drivers from Formula One and around the world battle in their brutally fast CAN AM machines on the daunting race tracks across North America It was the quintessential COUNTER-CULTURE. Unique to the world, the CAN AM rule book had few restrictions, a championship which created the world's fastest most powerful road racing cars. These radical machines and their famed innovations pushed the limits and sometimes beyond.

In the world of 1970s car racing, Hurley Haywood was cool, calm and collected. A five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, three-time Le Mans winner and Trans-Am 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 Gregg—the Batman to his Robin—whose 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 Haywood’s tightrope walk between career and sexuality, while posing the question—will motorsport ever be ready for openly LGBT racers?