Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33869270-20180305070613/@comment-28169398-20180307011118

JEM Racing wrote: I will say, that to those who say paint scheme and paint job, i wouldn't call that accurate. I am a NASCAR fan, among other notable series, and one thing i noticed they say a lot is "paint scheme", but 97% of the time, these cars are not even painted, they are wrapped. Not sure about the other series, they dont go too much into it.

The carbon fiber parts for F1 are painted and only the Sponsor badging are vinyls (or whatever space age compound they use that reduced the weight of the decal by 74.297%). The reason is that they can likely use much less paint with regards to weight than they could to a wrap... NASCAR don't care all that much about saving milligrams.
 * this is not an invite to begin debating nascar for anything other than its terminology on the word paint job/scheme