2025 Season 4 by the numbers

Week 13 means it’s time for the latest Trading Paints season recap, a time for those of us statistically inclined to learn what happened in the colorful world of Trading Paints over the past season.

A total of 918,685 new custom paints were assigned in 2025 Season 4, totaling over 3.8 trillion pixels. Way to make the track a more colorful place!

Top Color Codes Used in Season 4

These were the most frequently-occurring colors from new custom iRacing paints assigned in Season 4.

Red — the plain and simple red-as-it-can-get #FF0000 — again took the top spot, followed by newcomers #223B82 (a lovely blue hue) and teal #00695D following.

Most-Raced Showroom Paints in Season 4

Jason Drabble’s HRT NURBURGRING SPECIAL upload was the most-raced paint from the Showroom in Season 4, totaling just under 2,000 instances raced.

Gabriel G.’s Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO concept was second-most raced, followed by Yicheng Miao’s lovely Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO replica.

Honorable mention:

2025 AO Racing IMSA GTD Pro #77 - Skeleton Rexy by Patryk A. - Trading Paints

AO Racing Skeleton Rexy launch livery for Petit LeMans, to be raced October 8-11, 2025. Lauren Heinrich & Klaus Bachler are joined by Michael Christensen for this special IMSA race. Accurate replica of the AO Racing launch livery. Update 2025.10.09 - Minor decal placement updates based on car at Road Atlanta. Please favorite the paint if you’re racing it. And you if you want to show further appreciation for these free paints: https://buymeacoffee.com/allroadsmaple Thank You.

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Verstappen.Com Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 by Frank Amend - Trading Paints

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Most Favorited Showroom Paints in Season 4

Patryk A.’s AO Racing Skeleton Rexy replica earned the most favorites of any Showroom paint in Season 4, with 615 favorites total.

Most-raced paint HRT NURBURGRING SPECIAL from Jason Drabble earned the second-most favorites, followed by the Verstappen.com Racing Aston Martin from Yicheng Miao.

Honorable mention:

Aston Martin Racing Team - (High Quality Textures) by Gabriel G. - Trading Paints

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2025 AO Racing LMP #99 - Skeleton Spike by Patryk A. - Trading Paints

AO Racing Skeleton Spike the LMP2 Dragon launch livery for Petit LeMans, to be raced October 8-11, 2025. Accurate replica of the AO Racing launch livery. Please favorite the paint if you’re racing it. And you if you want to show further appreciation for these free paints: https://buymeacoffee.com/allroadsmaple Thank You.

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In Season 4 alone, 243,599 favorites were handed out from members. Send your favorite painter some love by remembering to hit the favorite paints on paints you enjoy!

Most Popular Painters in Season 4

The venerable Don Craig and Paul R Chaloner swapped top spots from Season 3, followed by Brantley Roden earning a spot on the top-painters podium in Season 4 as well.

Honorable mention: Patryk A. (2,531 favorites), John Rubino (2,509), Karsten B. (2,302), Clyde Coman (1,962), Stephane Parent (1,888), Frank Amend (1,781), Samuel J Ball (1,642).

Most Popular Vehicles in Season 4

The new Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO was a popular car to paint, racking up 33,006 total custom paints in its debut season. The Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) followed closely behind with 27,368 new custom paints, with the podium-frequenting Global Mazda MX5-Cup in third with 25,161 paints assigned.

It’s the first time we’ve seen an oval-racing shut-out in the top 3. (OK, this is only our sixth edition of the season recap, but still.)

Thanks to everyone in the Trading Paints community for making iRacing a more colorful place this season! 🏁

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