This is the one that makes you feel the loss before it lets you race again. SAGA opens with Hayato still carrying the final round of the 14th Grand Prix, the championship gone, and instead of handing him a miracle machine it puts him in the Sugo Garland SF-03 and tells him to wait for the new Asurada like everyone else. Eight episodes of a driver learning what he actually is without the car that made him famous, while Kyoshiro Nagumo walks into Aoi ZIP Formula as president and turns a rival team into a corporate weapon aimed at the whole grid. The racing is hand-drawn and hostile, the paddock politics hit harder than the crashes, and the 15th GP stops being about revenge somewhere in the middle. If you grew up on the TV series, this is the payoff that respects you enough to hurt.

Hayato Kazami watches his championship dreams crumble in the final race of the 14th Cyber Formula World Grand Prix. Wanting a fresh start for the 15th season, he switches to the Sugo Garland SF-03 while he waits for the latest Asurada design to be ready. His hopes of making up for the previous year's disappointment grow harder when Aoi ZIP Formula goes through a major restructuring and names Kyoshiro Nagumo as its new president. Nagumo brings a new car to the team, and with rookie Phil Fritz at the wheel it looks almost impossible to beat. Told across eight OVA episodes, the story blends futuristic racing with sports drama.