a three-year contract to work as a reporter on NASCAR Race Hub. Despite leaving, WBTV won a Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas award for a sports special program called First Class that she contributed to in October 2010. She also co-presented the ACC Network's pregame and half time show, The ACC Blizz, alongside football coach Tommy Bowden in 2011, and also wrote football columns for local newspaper Charlotte Weekly. Trotta was also a weekly contributor on NASCAR and ACC Football on Charlotte-based talk radio station ESPN 730. She was mentored by fellow Fox Sports employee Steve Byrnes. In 2012, Trotta moved into a co-host role, and presented Speed's coverage of that year's NASCAR Sprint Awards Ceremony from Las Vegas. She also hosted various specials devoted to NASCAR, along with Supercross and MotoGP events throughout 2014. Since 2015, Trotta has been the host of NASCAR RaceDay for Xfinity Series races, and in the same year, made her début as a sideline reporter for coverage of the game between the Arizona Cardinals and Cleveland Browns on Fox NFL. On February 13, 2017, Trotta tweeted that she would be leaving NASCAR Race Hub to pursue other opportunities. A few hours later a press conference was held to announce that Shannon Spake would take over Trotta's duties as co-host of NASCAR Race Hub and host of the Xfinity Series edition of NASCAR RaceDay on Saturdays. She told The Charlotte Observer in 2022 that she left Fox Sports because she did not want to be typecast as a "the NASCAR girl". In 2019, Trotta joined NBC Sports’ NASCAR coverage as host of the “Victory Lap” post-race show for select Cup Series races. On August 3, 2020, Trotta, along with many other NBC Sports Boston on-air personalities, were released from the network due to decisions made by parent company NBC Universal. She hosted the ten-episode unscripted motoring television series My Dream Car! on the Fox Business cable news channel in 2022. Personal life She is married to former NASCAR Busch Series stock car driver Robby Benton. See also List of Fox NASCAR broadcasters References External links 1981 births Living people Motorsport announcers People from Westchester County, New York Carmel High School (Indiana) alumni University of North Carolina at Charlotte alumni NASCAR people Racing drivers' wives and girlfriends