Vert Wheeler was originally the name of a Highway 35/Acceleracers character; the Wave Rippers team leader and later a member of the Teku. He’s the main character of Highway 35 and spends Acceleracers dealing with impostor syndrome
Mattel reused the “Vert Wheeler” name for BF5 but the two characters are totally unrelated to each other, as are the two franchises
Funnily enough BF5 also reused another Acceleracers name, though for one of the cars - Reverb. Since you seem familiar with BF5 already, you may recognise Reverb as this car:
The original Acceleracers version looks like this:
