Red Racer Factory

The Red Racer Factory is an abandoned Red Racer tricycle factory in the Capital Wasteland.

Information
The various ghouls encountered in the initial levels suffer from exploding heads, post-death, with an accompanying electronic "chirp"; the same sound made by a mine prior to exploding. Further exploration, particularly in the CEO Offices, reveals super mutants, also with a penchant for bursting heads after death. Eventually, a mad scientist known as "The Surgeon", armed with a missile launcher, will accost the player. Reading the various computer terminals reveals that the Surgeon was apparently experimenting upon various mutant creatures with a brain implant. It is revealed that the reason for their heads exploding was a means of cover-up, and also as a failsafe in the event that he/she loses control. The player can activate the failsafe if they have the science skill needed to hack the computer terminals with the option, thus killing most of the creatures in the factory.

There is also a glowing one named Stefan, who is revealed from the notes of the Surgeon to be a particularly prized subject. On The Surgeon's body is a key that will open up two safes nearby and the cage holding Stefan, as well as a missile launcher and the Surgeon's lab coat.

Location
The Red Racer Factory is northeast of the Nuka-Cola Plant (west of Hubris Comics). To get there, you have to travel north from the Nuka-Cola Plant until you reach Dot's Diner. From there, travel east to the factory.

Notable Loot

 * A copy of Dean's Electronics is well hidden near a toolbox on top of the machinery in the first assembly room straight forward from the main entrance. This room has a giant teddy bear(this is collectible) on a tricycle hanging from the ceiling. Jump up onto the barrels to the left of the machine to get on top and find the book.
 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine under a bucket, on top of a large machine, next to a tool box, turpentine, ammo box and hammer at the eastern side of the factory floor - just northwest of the eastern most room with the two water fountains. Must drop down from a catwalk onto a covered catwalk. This area is difficult to find, and you'll need to run all the way around the upstairs areas in order to reach this room. Once on the covered catwalk, it's located between two generators up a small step ladder. (One way to identify the correct room is that on the floor level there is a conveyor belt with two red lights on either side where it enters the walls.) It should be underneath a bucket.
 * You can find Nikola Tesla and You in the CEO Offices behind an Average locked door. As soon as you enter the offices and turn the corner, go through the first door to your left, where it can be found on a shelf.
 * You can acquire the Surgeon's lab coat in the factory. The Surgeon is located in the CEO Offices. The lab coat grants +10 medicine and +5 science.
 * There is a Nuka-Cola Quantum in the CEO Offices inside Stefan's cage (the Surgeon's prized ghoul).
 * A [Locked - Easy] safe on the ground floor in a cubicle
 * A [Locked - Average] safe on the second floor in a small office with a closed door.
 * Two [Locked - Average] safes in the CEO Offices, The Surgeon holds the key to unlock both of them.

Outside:

 * Goalie Ledoux will be standing in the parking lot outside the main entrance to the factory if you have obtained the Nuka-Cola Clear formula as part of the quest The Nuka-Cola Challenge. He wears a unique mask named Ledoux's hockey mask that gives the wearer +25 AP and has a damage resistance of 4.
 * East of the factory across the parking lot, and in between the buildings across the street, is an area with some raiders and a few guard dogs. Guns and Bullets can be found on a counter, and a U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes next to the footlocker near the bed.
 * Immediately south of the factory in an overturned, radioactive trucking container with barrels and a dead body which contains a copy of Grognak the Barbarian (sometimes the dead body does not spawn).
 * On top of the overpass to the north of the factory is scavenger's bridge where a scavenger has three skill books (1x Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual, 1x Duck and Cover, and 1x Grognak the Barbarian). They are on a shelf in the scavenger's shop, and cannot be purchased; only stolen. The overpass can be recognized by a wrecked cargo truck underneath and can also be accessed by following the road starting from the Grayditch sewer.