History of Kevin Felix

“If you no longer go for a story that exists, you are no longer a storyteller.” – Kevin Felix

Born at the “Hollywood of the South” (Covington, GA, USA), Kevin grew up with cinematic stages and live productions that surrounded the downtown area, or even in the neighborhoods that would produce top TV shows and films of the early 2000s, 2010s, and even today’s top films of the decade. His first exposure to racing was Gran Turismo 4 on the PlayStation 2. He would play that game a lot and study the cars of its time.

On October of 2010, Kevin would then move to Milwaukee, where cars started to build more of an interest in his mind as he would watch Formula 1 on early Sunday mornings, and NASCAR on TV. In 2015, his father took him and his two brothers to the Milwaukee Mile for his very first race with IndyCar stars like Will Power, Scott Dixon, and Sébastien Bourdais, who would win the ABC Wisconsin 250 that weekend.

Even when Wisconsin was long without any professional racing, Kevin still kept up with the top leagues in the United States, and got into gokarting himself during his late elementary and middle school years. Where he would take on in friendly participation or competitive racing at Lightspeed (Greenfield, WI) before redevelopment on March 17, 2020 due to the pandemic and pivoted away from go-karts. Kevin would step away from Gran Turismo 4 to the 5th installment on the PlayStation 3 and keep building his Gran Turismo career there.

His first actual hands on experience would come in on August 20th, 2022. Red Bull Racing visited the area for pit stop training on an F1 car with the general public. He would step onto the stage and practice solo pit stop. When it came to competition time, he would earn a top 5 spot in the Milwaukee area before moving onto The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This time period is where he would enlist as a student-athlete for the university’s racing team (Wisconsin Racing). He elected in the FSAE division, where the team would build 1:3 scale of a Formula 1 car for competition at the end of the academic year for the Combustion and the Electric cars. Kevin was on the aerodynamics sub-team. He would learn how to efficiently use SOLIDWORKS and run simulations with Star CCM+ programs before upgrading his engineering licenses to use heavy equipment and machinery to create parts for both of the car’s front wings. Retired early and not competing his senior year, Kevin would see the team earn…

  • 2022-23 Season
    • New friends and experiences
  • 2023-24 Season
    • Combustion:
      • 3rd Design
    • Electric:
      • 3rd World Overall
      • 2nd Autocross
  • 2024-25 Season
    • Combustion
      • 7th World Overall
      • 3rd Design
      • 3rd Efficiency
      • Electric:
        • 2nd Autocross
        • 1st Design (FSAE, Oshkosh)
        • Multimatic Vehicle Dynamics Award
        • Ilmor Power Unit Award

“Everyone always wants the best for everyone, from everyone. Even when we make mistakes, the help is always there. No mission too difficult. No sacrifice too great.”

2024 Aerodynamics Team
2025 Aerodynamics Team

Kevin would move on to working full time as President of a student organization with four of his now lifelong friends from university as their desired goal is to inspire and jumpstart companies or products that students from the university regardless of their pathway. Combined experiences from competitions and test trials with smaller products, they shared all of their experiences to help others earn while they learn, or get a jumpstart on their entrepreneurship past graduation. Kevin started out working as a Marketing Director, where he led a small team to help produce content on social media pages before becoming elected to lead the entire organization.

Now, Kevin travels wherever he goes for racing for small personal projects all across the country, while also attending the Milwaukee Mile for Indycar every year since its return in 2024. He also continues to sim race on his setup with the latest Gran Turismo 7, every now and then to keep up with his racing skills anywhere he goes if ever an opportunity comes to work closer with a motorsport team. He currently works with the Family of Gregg McKarns for video production at two of his locations, Madison International Speedway (Oregon, WI) and Angell Park Speedway (Sun Prairie, WI). While Kevin earns experience in motorsports videography, he is open to new experiences outside of motorsports, whether it is content creation for his YouTube channel, graduation photos for his friends, or other tasks that brings him and his camera along.