Danielle Trotta

Danielle Trotta (born March 13, 1981) is an American journalist who covers auto racing for SiriusXM. She was the co-host of NASCAR Race Hub, and the pre-race show NASCAR RaceDay for Xfinity Series events on Fox Sports 1. Trotta started her career in high school, and after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she worked for local station WBTV. She moved to Fox Sports in July 2010 where she has covered NASCAR and the NFL. In 2018, she joined the cast of Boston Sports Tonight at NBC Sports Boston. After Trotta and other on-air personalities were released from the network by NBCUniversal, in 2022 and 2023 Trotta hosted the television series My Dream Car! on Fox Business and Fox Nation. She currently covers racing on SiriusXM satellite radio.

Life and career Trotta was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. Her family moved to Richmond, Indiana, when Trotta was ten years old, and at the age of 13 before she started high school, moved to Carmel for business reasons.

Trotta enrolled in four colleges along the East Coast before she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in Mass Journalism in 2005. During her period in college, Trotta had internships with television stations with Indianapolis and with Charlotte, North Carolina–based stations WCNC-TV and WBTV (she joined the latter in 2004). After graduation, she was hired full-time as a weekend news editor for WBTV. Trotta started as a photographer, and later convinced the station's management to allow herself to be shown on television. She made her on-screen début at WBTV as weekend sports anchor in 2007, 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.

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 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 NBCUniversal.

In 2022 and 2023, Trotta hosted the television series My Dream Car! on the Fox Business cable news channel, and on the Fox Nation subscription video on demand service, where "Families find, buy and restore a car as a surprise for their loved ones."

Personal life She is married to former NASCAR Busch Series stock car driver Robby Benton.