This Week on Trading Paints: October 9, 2026
News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week while you’re listening to the new iRacing Downshift podcast episode.
Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the colorful world of Trading Paints and the iRacing painting community.
🧑🎨 ICYMI: Fisher Giannotti in the Spotlight
Fisher Giannotti is this the focus of this month’s Artist Spotlight. The Georgia native shared his journey from designing paint scheme concepts on his phone in 2020 to creating some of the most eye-catching graphics for Bill McAnally Racing — including a Kyle Busch tribute paint scheme that will hit the track in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series this weekend.
🇩🇪 2026 DTM paints are here
The official set of 2026 DTM liveries has arrived in the Trading Paints Showroom as the inaugural season of the iRacing DTM Series wraps up this week.
Check out DTM’s Trading Paints profile to race your favorite DTM paint on iRacing.
Or, take a look at our team member Julian’s AI-Ready Collection featuring the 2026 DTM paints for offline single-player racing.
💿 New Downloader Beta Available
We’ve released a new version of Trading Paints Downloader Beta for testing new features.
Here’s what’s new in Version B14, released today, October 9, 2026:
- Attempt to fix an issue where league-specific paints did not appear when a member is part of a league with multiple series containing the same vehicle
And other updates include:
- Updated .NET Framework requirement for improved compatibility (added in version B13)
- Added support for when UTF-8 is enabled for iRacing telemetry (added in version B12)
- Downloader will not check for updates if not connected to the internet (added in version B12)
If you’ve enabled UTF-8 character support in iRacing and Trading Paints Downloader has stopped working, you’ll want to give this Downloader Beta a try.
✨ New Verified Official Paints
In addition to the new 2026 DTM paints, these official paints arrived this week in the Trading Paints Showroom.
Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!
🏎️ Staff Picks
These paints have caught the eye of Trading Paints developers, community managers, and other team members.
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🔢 From the Number Showroom
Here are some new custom numbers from the Number Showroom that caught our eye. They’re available to add to your paints, download, or remix.
Keep posting your numbers from Number Builder, and we’ll continue to share what we like!
🏆 Paint of the Week
Tyler Porter’s striking “Sunset Graffiti” paint for the new Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH is this week’s Paint of the Week, chosen by Patrick, our Community Manager. We love the detail of the lines drawn around each of the body panels, and it makes an already ridiculously fast car look even faster.
Sunset Graffiti Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH from Tyler Porter. Images from Julian Madore.
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! 🏁
