{"id":1359,"date":"2021-10-27T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2022\/?page_id=1359"},"modified":"2023-07-07T01:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T01:07:25","slug":"special-guests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/special-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTE: The following guests joined us for ZCON 2022. Group Z and ZCCA are working to confirm the special guests for ZCON 2023. 

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Peter Brock<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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In 1965, Brock left Shelby American to start Brock Racing Enterprises, known in the racing community as BRE. He also started his own race team and put Japanese cars into the history books. Two wins in the C Production National\n Championships (240Z) and two 2.5 Trans-Am Championships (driver John Morton) in BRE 510s.\n
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Hiroshi Tamura<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Hiroshi Tamura, the Chief Product Specialist (CPS) of the Z Proto and next Z. After graduating from university, he joined Nissan in April 1984, where he spent his early years as an engineer, along with stints at Autech Japan and Nissan\n Prince Kanagawa sales branches. In February 2006, he received his first CPS assignment\u2014with the Product Planning Department\u2014and in April 2012, he became the CPS of the GT-R and the 370Z, taking on the challenge to not only meet,\n but exceed fan expectations with both legendary models.\n
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Chris Forsberg<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Chris Forsberg is a three-time Formula Drift champion and one of the few ironmen of Formula Drift. He has competed in every round of competition since 2004 amassing 57 podium finishes. He\u2019s won yearly FD awards such as Drift Ace (twice),\n Best Looking Car, Comeback of the Year, Team Manager, Top Qualifier and Best Drifting Style.\n
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JDM Legends<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Eric Bizek, Josh Martin and Mauricio Rosales have become regulars at our events.  The trio hosted the “JDM Legends” series which covered the shop’s Datsun and Japanese sports cars.  Come out and hang with some true Legends\n of the Datsun car community.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Bryan Heitkotter<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Bryan Heitkotter is proof that sim racing is the only esport that has a 1:1 relation to its real-life counterpart. His experience capturing third place at the Dubai 24 Hours as well as being a ten-time SCCA National Autocross Champion\n helped him beat over 53,000 online competitors in the GT Academy talent search. In 2011 he became the first to win the Nissan U.S.A. GT Academy Championship.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Alex Jagger<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Alex has won multiple Rally America National Championship stages and began drifting in 2014 with the Club Loose racing organization. Alex won Etown Gambler Drift competitions in 2020. Also in 2020 Alex won the U.S. Drift Shootout which\n granted him the Formula Drift Prospec license. Alex co-hosted the Drive Network\u2019s \u201cMy Life as a Rallyist\u201d and \u201cBorn a Car\u201d as well as \u201cRadventures\u201d with Hagerty Media. Alex will be driving a GT-R powered Nissan 370Z in the Formula\n Drift Pro2 class for Forsberg Racing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Fielding Shredder<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Fielding Shredder is best known for his exciting driving style and attention to car styling. You probably saw him on Netflix new show HYPERDRIVE which just came out. He can also be found drifting at a Lone Star Drift event, or tearing\n up the Ranch at Rally Ready, or driving other fun things like R8’s at Audi driving experience.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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“Mad Mike” Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Mr. Taylor is credited with growing the Z Car Community here in the United States. Additionally, he was heavily involved in the late ’90’s and early 2000’s in the Z-Car revival that led to the 350z launch. He’s an active leader in\n international Z-Car Club relations and continues to serve as the ZCCA’s Liaison to Japan.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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2023 Special Guests NOTE: The following guests joined us for ZCON 2022. Group Z and ZCCA are working to confirm the special guests for ZCON 2023. Please Stay Tuned! Peter Brock In 1965, Brock left Shelby American to start Brock Racing Enterprises, known in the racing community as BRE. He also started his own race team and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1359","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zcon.org\/conventions\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}