This Week on Trading Paints: May 23, 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 iRacing’s latest development blog.
🚘 Gen 4 Cup cars will have two different templates
In iRacing’s latest development update shared Monday, Senior Vice President and Executive Producer Greg Hill revealed an important detail about how paints will work for the much-anticipated NASCAR 2003 Chevrolet Monte Carlo and 2003 Ford Taurus Gen 4 Cup cars.
Each car package will include two distinct car bodies: Stockcar and Speedway Stockcar. During this era of Cup racing, the car bodies were dramatically different in shape, and this presented a new challenge for our architecture. While we already have many cars with track-specific variants, the 2003 variants are so unique that we could not use a singular paint template and had to split each variant into its own unique template.
So, painters, prepare yourselves: in terms of paints, this means you’ll need two separate versions of your car on two different templates depending on track type due to differences in the cars’ body styles. Your paint for Daytona will differ from the one you drive at Bristol.
Another bit of related good news from the development blog: the iRacing UI paint preview will soon support toggling between body styles — no more need to load a sim session at a particular track.
🧑💻 Help us test new Downloader features
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.
🌟 Fresh Official Paints
Some new Verified Official Paints landed in the Showroom over the past week.
🏎️ Staff Picks
Team Trading Paints highlighted some new favorites in the Showroom.
🏆 Paint of the Week
It’s Indy 500 weekend, and Community Manager Patrick selected this fictional concept from Tyler Tucker that’s a mashup of the McLaren Formula 1 team’s Chrome livery (2024 United States Grand Prix) as Pato O’Ward’s IndyCar ride.
2024 Arrow McLaren Chrome Pato O’Ward Dallara IR18 from Tyler Tucker
📢 Special Shoutout
Modern Racing Prints GP (Matthew Breuer) is painting and releasing designs of ACT Tour late models for iRacing — with 25 cars and counting.
It's that time of year again - we're beginning to release our 2025 @ACTTour paint schemes for iRacing! We've started with 25(!) cars, including defending series champion Gabe Brown pic.twitter.com/AbdO0jC4sV
— Modern Racing Prints GP (@MRP_GrandPrix) May 19, 2025
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