This Week on Trading Paints: May 2, 2025
News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week.
Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re checking out the latest NASCAR ’25 Dev Diary.
🎁 What’s New
The latest in our Artist Spotlight series is live. Get to know Roberto Ramirez (a.k.a. Bolts), Graphic Designer at Spire Motorsports — and 2020 Trading Paints Paint of the Year winner.
Our Beta program for Trading Paints Downloader is back for testing some new features before they’re released to the public. If you want to help us test out new stuff (like faster downloads!) and track down bugs, take a look at the Downloader Beta.
Our friends at Big Evil Designs have released some new template kits for those of us really into details.
Dallara IR18 / AOWR #iRacing template kit has been updated for 2025 Updates include: - '25 OEM decal kits (specific for 7.5 different teams) - '25 contig packs (like above, specific for 7 teams) - added bare carbon layers (front & rear wings) - other misc. detail layers (ex. nose cone fasteners)
— BIG EVIL Designs (@bigevildesigns.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T08:54:00.647Z
Acura ARX-06 LMDh #iRacing template kit has been uploaded to the site. Special thanks to Steve Rada + Nick Baker on getting this one together.
— BIG EVIL Designs (@bigevildesigns.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T09:54:08.391Z
🌟 Fresh Official Paints
Check out the latest Verified Official Paints new to the Showroom this week.
I’m told our @DreyerReinbold @CusickMSports Invst machine has made its way to @iRacing 😎 looks very cool I must say! pic.twitter.com/qtiMsniLLK
— Jack Harvey (@jack_harvey93) May 1, 2025
🏎️ Staff Picks
Plenty of paints caught the eye of the Trading Paints team this week, including these.
“DEGA!” –Shawn, development
It’s the month of May, and Jeff McKeand has gone to work replicating some designs for the Indianapolis 500.
🏆 Paint of the Week
Community Manager Patrick selected this brightly-colored Dirt Late Model submitted by Joshua Wright as this week’s Paint of the Week. Can’t miss this one!
Austin Shaw / 2025 DLM / #19 Dirt Late Model from Joshua Wright3. Photos from Josh Chin.
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