// About me
I'm Joe R. Wells
I run GB22 Designs from Florida. I grew up a big NASCAR fan, with Dale Earnhardt and Tony Stewart as my inspirations and idols, and I've been painting race cars since the create-a-car screen in NASCAR Thunder 2002.
I picked up Photoshop and Illustrator when I found iRacing, because I wanted a car nobody else had. Since then my schemes have run in the Xfinity Series and ARCA, landed in an officially licensed NASCAR game, and earned a Trading Paints Artist Spotlight.
“I always wanted to be unique.”
I'm an avid sim racer too. I co-own G-Lightning Motors, our sim team, and we compete in NASCAR and endurance events on iRacing.
I love every series, and I love traveling to tracks across the country. Weekends at IMSA, WEC, IndyCar and NASCAR races give me most of my ideas, along with a shelf of a few hundred 1/24 diecasts. I like schemes that are bold and loud, and nothing gets me going like a good throwback.
I'm always looking to get more of my work on track, and I'd love to find new teams to work with. If that's you, get in touch.
Trading Paints Artist SpotlightFebruary 2026 · Read the article