Meet Kaitlyn Vincie, the stunning Fox presenter who steals show in Nascar coverage and leads from front in Race Hub show
KAITLYN Vincie has shown immense drive to become a successful mother of two, novelist, Airbnb owner, and star Nascar presenter for Fox Sports.
For the past 14 years, the stunning broadcaster has been one of the primary faces of Fox's Nascar coverage.
She presents FS1 weeknight news program Nascar Race Hub as well as the Nascar Raceday pre-race shows for the Cup Series and Truck Series, while she also works on-site as a reporter at races.
It has been an amazing rise for Vincie who was an aspiring sports journalist from a young age and got her break covering races at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia.
“My parents have videos of me at 12 years old, reporting the news,” she told the Daily News-Record.
“I think truly from a very young age I had an interest in being on camera, and pretend I was a news anchor which is so funny looking back.
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"Obviously growing up in Harrisonburg, Nascar is a big deal.”
The Christopher Newport University graduate made a name for herself filing YouTube reports from Langley Speedway.
At the time, she was also working as a waitress and in a tanning salon to make extra money.
But after years of grinding, Vincie managed to secure a breakthrough job with the Fox Sports family as a social media reporter on Trackside.
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The 36-year-old quickly secured work at Nascar Race Hub and has climbed up the Fox Nascar ranks ever since.
"I always kind of reflect back on that and think about how that all came together and how fortunate I was that someone believed in me,” she told The Podium Finish.
"It’s been an amazing ride. I’ve gotten to do a little bit of everything at this point. I’ve covered every single series that we have within Nascar.
"It’s just been a huge honor to represent that company, to be a face of this sport that I love so much.”
Vincie is married to Rick Hendrick Motorsports crew chief Blake Harris.
The couple, who reside in North Carolina have two children - Kadence and Dawson.
"We met while working and traveling on the racing circuit at an unusual restaurant near New Hampshire Motor Speedway (just your conventional Nascar love story)," she told JeffGluck.com.
"But Blake was easily the partner I had been hoping to find, and through this entire process he has handled our turn of life events with grace and dexterity — while I’ve been the temperamental and often emotional one."
Vincie recently expanded on her work with Fox as the co-host of a podcast with former Daytona 500 winner Kevin Harvick called Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour.
Earlier this year, Vincie published her first novel, Save The Queen City.
It covers a TV reporter and a detective in Charlotte who are both chasing a serial killer targeting women in the city.
Vincie took five years to complete the work, alongside her Fox Sports and family commitments.
“It was hard, I’m not gonna lie,” Vincie told Heavy.com.
“It was sort of whenever I could fit it in was kind of how I did it at first.
"And when we would travel on the plane, a lot of times I would be working on it.
"If I ever had downtime in the hotel, I would be working on it.
I was interviewing Chase Elliott when he still had braces.
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"And it definitely took a lot longer than I thought because once you just complete it, that’s only the very beginning.
"Then it went through two major developmental edits.”
Vincie and her husband also own a rental property in the North Carolina mountains.
“I remember when we got that first booking, it was so cool," she said.
“It’s almost like when you make your very first dollar, if you’ve started a business, people always frame their first dollar.
"It was cool because we’re like, ‘Alright, we got our first booking, someone’s coming to stay with us.’
"And now, we’ve had over 80 five-star reviews."
Vincie looks back on her time covering the grassroots of Nascar with huge fondness.
“We all started on that level. I was interviewing Chase Elliott and Bubba Wallace and guys when they were really young, when Chase still had braces," she said.
“So, we all kind of just rose through the sport together, as I was on the journalism path, and they were on the competition side. And I think that’s really neat.
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"I think I love being able to tell that story of where all of this journey first started out, and then, of course, reflecting back on it now, it is pretty surreal to see how it all came together.”
Nascar Race Hub, which debuted in 2009, is ending in June.