Hayato Kazami

• Anime Appearance: TV Series, 11, ZERO, SAGA, SIN
• DOB: March 28, 2001
• Nationality: Japan
• Teams: Sugo Asurada (2015–2017), Sugo Winners (2018–2019), Sugo Grand Prix (2020–2021), Sugo GIO Grand Prix (2022–)
• Notable Entrants: Asurada GSX (2015), Super Asurada 01 (2015–16), Super Asurada AKF-11 (2016–2019), Garland SF-03 (2020), v-Asurada AKF-0 (2020–2021), v-Asurada AKF-0/G (2022–)
Hayato Kazami （風見 ハヤト） is the main character in the anime series Future GPX Cyber Formula other than Cyber Formula SIN.
Hayato was introduced to the world of Cyber Formula when by accident he became the registered driver of the Cyber Formula car Asurada, designed by his father while he recovered it from the hands of mercenaries. The Cyber System registers a unique user for the vehicle at the time of activation and the it would take a week to reformat the vehicle for another driver. This was not an option as the race was to be held much sooner. This forces the Sugo Grand Prix team to go with Hayato as the driver for the license race over the team's driver at the time, Akira Hiyoshi. After earning his license to compete in the Cyber Grand Prix, Kazami becomes the youngest driver to ever compete in the Grand Prix, at the time.
His first season was successful, being the youngest driver to seize the World Championship title in his debut year by 3 wins and 6 podiums, including the stunning victory in Japan, overcoming the disadvantage of switching cars from Asurada GSX to Super Asurada 01 and stumbling at the beginning of the Grand Prix to due to overconfidence and near-lack of racing skills. He and his team struggled in the following season's opener due to the high-speed of development of other constructors. However, the development of Super Asurada AKF-11 and his driving skill would still proved strong against other opponents especially Knight Schumacher (Osamu Sugo). He nearly abandoned the chance of becoming World Champion by requesting Osamu, who attempts to retire the race (due to an eye condition) to return to the track in final round. However, it turned out that all the leading drivers are throwing away their lead and race against them, Hayato barely beat Osamu, Shinjyo and Randoll in the final corner, winning the race and secured his second World Champion title.
He started off well in 2017 following his second World Champion title, setting-up a pole-to-win record in first 4 races, and likely to become the first person to have 3 World Championship titles. However, his discovery of "Zero-Realm" ability in the fifth race in England leads him to the serious accident, which not only ends his season but sends him to a near-fatal condition. Even in terms of points, he still ranked third (where Naoki Shinjyo was crowned World Champion). He would not be able to return the circuit until the fifth race in the 2018 season, but he would not overcome his ghost until the sixth race, where he would also make-use of the "Zero-Realm" to win the race. He successfully holds off Bleed Kaga to lead Sugo's Henri Claytor to get his first World Championship title, while he finished fourth in overall ranking.
The aging of Super Asurada AKF-11 and development of other teams made him lose the title race again in 2019 season, and he abandoned his partner Asurada and driving Garland SF-03 at the beginning of 2020 season instead. However, the unsatisfactory result of such combinations would lead Kazami to return back to Asurada, with a powered-up chassis v-Asurada AKF-0. The change proved to be a success by winning the 6 out of the 7 remaining races in the season, and was crowned the historical first third World Champion (following Aoi's disqualification of doping and cheating in race that season).
The 2021 season would set his record champion points 76 (6 wins out of 12) after the reform of the Race Calendar and points and getting his 4th World Champion title. He loses lots of advantage in the title race in 2022 season by retiring 5 out of first 8 races due to transmission problem (through he still won the remaining three), although he would able to recover the deficit in 11th race. The final-corner overtaking by Bleed Kaga (on OGRE AN-21) in round 12 would declare his failure of his title-defense with only 2 points.