Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re waiting for the 2026 racing season to begin.
🧑🎨 Joe R. Wells in the Spotlight
In our latest Artist Spotlight, we chatted with Joe R. Wells of GB22 Designs, who’s been on his grind as an up-and-coming artist, creating opportunities with his painting roots in the iRacing world.
iRacing’s recently-released patch updated current NASCAR cars (Cup Series, O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, and Truck Series for Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota) with 2026 art updates.
These are largely decal/on-car-art-specific updates, with the exception of the NASCAR Cup Series Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, which uses a new car model. While most paints are compatible without serious changes, it’s worth taking a look through your paints to make sure everything is still lining up as expected.
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A paint on the 2025-spec Chevrolet and the 2026 version.
If you’re using Paint Builder and want to update a Chevrolet paint to the latest template, go into Project Settings and click Reset Template Layers. This will assign the latest template car parts to your project.
You can download new PSD templates from the Car Templates page if you’re still painting in external software.
✨ New Verified Official Paints
The Showroom features plenty of new official paints this week, representing verified-official recreations from artists and teams.
2026 Justin Allgaier Traveller Whiskey Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Denny Hamlin National Debt Relief Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden on behalf of Joe Gibbs Racing2026 Denny Hamlin Progressive Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden on behalf of Joe Gibbs Racing2026 Justin Allgaier BRANDT Professional Agriculture Whiskey Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Justin Allgaier BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Connor Zilisch Carolina Carports Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Justin Allgaier Carolina Carports Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Ross Chastain Carolina Carports Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Justin Allgaier Jarrett Logistics Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Carson Kvapil Jarrett Logistics Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Caesar Bacarella Prime Bites Protein Rice Treats #4 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Chevrolet from Ryan Pistana for Alpha Prime Racing
Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!
🏎️ Team Trading Paints Around the Track
Pictured: Aaron (Member Support) races in the CORT DriveFirst.org GT Series at Daytona while Dustin (Development) makes contact with an unsuspecting Drew Glover. Patrick (Community Manager) chases down Dustin later.
New Fictional Brands in Paint Builder
We’ve added a batch of 25 fake brands (totaling 90 options in various configurations and colors) as options to your Paint Builder paints!
A new batch of fictional brand logos joining Paint Builder in 2026 Season 1.
🏎️ Staff Picks
Team Trading Paints has enjoyed some of these new listings in the Showroom this week.
We’re really enjoying what you’ve been sharing in the new Number Showroom, part of the new Number Builder update. Here are a few recent numbers that caught our eye.
On Thursday, we reached a milestone of 10,000 followers on Instagram, where, at long last, we joined just over a year ago. We’re grateful for your support and we truly hope you enjoy following along. Thank you!
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