This article, published in the July/August 2005 issue of "Full Throttle News" chronicles my weekend spent with Darrell Conrad, Ken Williams, "Mousie" Marcellus, Mike Boyd and the entire "Winged Express" race team at Famoso Raceway outside Bakersfield CA in March 2005. Truly an experience like none other...and the beginning of a "beautiful friendship'' with our California racing family.