Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re longing for the sim version of the Caterham 7 coming to iRacing Arcade.
📊 2026 Season 1 recap is here!
This week, we crunched the numbers and released our report with some fun stats and figures from the past iRacing season — including a single-season record of 1,139,606 new paints assigned in Season 1 alone.
Jesse Moody of JM Graphics is the focus of March’s Artist Spotlight. At just 22, Jesse has already made quite a name for himself creating eye-catching car and merch designs for numerous NASCAR teams.
Some new official paints verified from teams and artists arrived in the Showroom this week.
Official 2026 AO Racing IMSA GTD Pro #77 Roxy GT3 Rawr Launch Livery Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) from Patryk A. on behalf of AO RacingOfficial IMSA AO Racing Spike at the 2026 Sebring 12h Dallara P217 from Patryk A. on behalf of AO Racing2026 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Bass Pro Shops #8 Late Model Stock from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Justin Allgaier BRANDT Professional Agriculture Peaches #7 NASCAR O’Reilly Chevrolet Camaro from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Carson Kvapil High Rock Vodka NASCAR O’Reilly Chevrolet Camaro from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Sammy Smith TruckClub NASCAR O’Reilly Chevrolet Camaro from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Lavar Scott #45 Sunoco NASCAR O’Reilly Chevrolet Camaro from Ryan Pistana for Alpha Prime Racing2026 Brennan Poole #44 Toxic Waste NASCAR O’Reilly Chevrolet Camaro from Ryan Pistana for Alpha Prime Racing2026 TeamTGM #46 Ford Mustang GT4 from Serena M. on behalf of TeamTGM & Andy Blackmore 2026 TeamTGM #64 Ford Mustang GT4 from Serena M. on behalf of TeamTGM & Andy Blackmore Bobby Earnhardt 2026 Daytona Test 2001 Corvette Throwback - #89 ARCA Chevrolet SS from Joe R Wells for Rise Racing
Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!
🏎️ Staff Picks
A few current favorites from the Trading Paints team.
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.
Keep posting your numbers to the Number Showroom, and we’ll continue to share what we like!
🏆 Paint of the Week
We’ve seen a lot of lovely new RAM trucks on the track since the new iRacing build. Justin T Wilkinson shared this gorgeous Mopar-adorned RAM, earning the title of Paint of the Week from our Community Manager, Patrick.
🙌 Community Shoutout: BIG EVIL Racing 2026 RAM template add-ons
Our friends at BIG EVIL Racing often create and share template add-ons for the exceptionally detail-minded of us. They worked their usual magic on the new RAM truck with a special version of the painting template that adds some new NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series-realistic layers for even deeper accuracy.
Just uploaded another update to the 2026 RAM Template!
The GOAT of Dodge template making, Zone15 has graced us with a grille blackout layer, as seen on the Kaulig Trucks.
@steve7151.bsky.social went to work this week and created a LAYERED contingency lack to use, as well as the Kaulig set