Season Recap
Recap: 2025 Season 1 by the numbers
We recap the latest iRacing season with some statistics and figures from the community, including most popular cars and painters.
Steve Luvender
Steve Luvender is the Founder and President of Trading Paints, sim racing’s custom livery design community.
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Car painting updates for iRacing 2025 Season 2 build
iRacing has released some new content and tweaked some cars. Here’s what you need to know for painting in 2025 Season 2.
This Week
This Week on Trading Paints: March 7, 2025
Updates from the colorful world of Trading Paints in the past week.
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Paint Builder Update Notes: March 7, 2025
A new release of Paint Builder adds layer grouping, performance improvements, and other new features.
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Paint Builder was temporarily down for maintenance
Paint Builder is down because we’re making some updates that are taking longer than expected. Sorry!
This Week
This Week on Trading Paints: February 28, 2025
Community updates from the Trading Paints world in the past week.
Proving Grounds
Recap: Proving Grounds Challenge #2 – Trading Paints 15th Anniversary
We’re sharing some of our favorite entries from our second Proving Grounds Challenge, celebrating the 15th anniversary of Trading Paints.
Proving Grounds
Proving Grounds Challenge #2: Trading Paints 15th Anniversary
Put your skills to the test with our latest Proving Grounds Challenge celebrating our new look.
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Celebrating a milestone: 15 years of Trading Paints
Founder Steve Luvender reflects on 15 years of Trading Paints, sharing memories from the journey and a look at what’s ahead, including some fresh visual updates to the brand.
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The results are in: the 2024 Paint of the Year is crowned
Jesse Abraham’s Neonizm Holographic Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R was voted 2024 Paint of the Year by the Trading Paints community.
Season Recap
Recap: 2024 Season 4 by the numbers
Another iRacing season is in the books — a 14-week schedule this time around. As always, we’ve enjoyed seeing creative passion in the community thrive with cars and painters both new and old. We’ve crunched some numbers over the past season, because who doesn’t love some stats? (Thanks
Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Michael Carey
Meet Michael Carey, Digital Media Manager for JR Motorsports, whose unique position in the industry has made him a multidisciplinary talent with plenty of experience in a short amount of time — not to mention his tireless efforts to highlight fellow artists in the community.