This Week on Trading Paints: October 10, 2025

Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re sending iRacing Executive Director Dale Earnhardt Jr. a birthday wish.

🏁 New Proving Grounds Challenge: NASCAR 25

To celebrate the October 14 release of NASCAR 25 on Xbox and PlayStation 5, we’ve launched a new Proving Grounds Challenge for showing off your skills with a little creative exercise. You can learn more about the challenge or head to the Proving Grounds page to join in on the fun (with a chance to win a copy of NASCAR 25) — or see what the community’s painting to celebrate.

🧑‍🎨 ICYMI: BLACKBEARDltd in the spotlight

Meet BLACKBEARDltd, a creative professional whose work spans many, many disciplines of racing, the focus of this month’s Artist Spotlight.

🌟 Fresh Official Paints

There’s another new Verified Official Paint in the Trading Paints Showroom this week.

Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!

🏎️ Staff Picks

The Trading Paints team sees a ton of paints every week. Here’s a small sampling of our favorites right now.

Valvoline Mustang GT4 by Tyler Tucker - Trading Paints

Here is a Valvoline Mustang. Loosely based on the 1996 Brian Simo Trans-Am Series livery.

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The Weather Channel ARCA Mustang by Matt Muir - Trading Paints

Template from Big Evil Racing

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Citgo Supergard 2002 Style by Jason K. - Trading Paints

SF23 Honda very loosely based on Jeff Burton’s 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series car.

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CATillac V-Series.R GTP by Matthew A Tomelleri - Trading Paints

Inspired by those early 2000’s Caterpillar sponsored Bill Davis Racing Cup cars driven by Ward Burton, Scott Wimmer & Dave Blaney.

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AO Racing Skeleton Rexy GT4 Rawr by Patryk A. - Trading Paints

AO Racing Skeleton Rexy fictional livery for the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR. Please favorite the paint if you’re racing it. And you if you want to show further appreciation for these free paints: https://buymeacoffee.com/allroadsmaple Thank You.

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Cavon Riley Dirt Late Model! by Cody G Williams - Trading Paints

Cavon Riley Dirt Late Model! Follow me for more paints @cody_williams_design on Instagram, and Facebook!

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🔢 From the Number Showroom

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.

NASCAR 25 by Tom H. | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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Podium Finish by Matthew Hourigan | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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83 by Trent Justice | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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Purple 6 by Henry Tietz | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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Number 78 by Alexi V. | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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FMR 57 2 by NR Cross | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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Keep posting your numbers to the Number Showroom, and we’ll continue to share what we like!

🏆 Paint of the Week

This Menards 1987 Ford Thunderbird “fauxback” from Brian Fletcher is this week’s Paint of the Week, chosen by Patrick, our Community Manager, on Instagram.

What did you think of This Week on Trading Paints? Let us know on Instagram and Bluesky — and don’t forget to tag us when you share your paints! 🏁