BRITISH CAREER: (2007-08) Weymouth; (2009) Bournemouth, Newport; (2010) Newport II, Birmingham.
CLUB HONOURS: League Championship winner: 2008 [Weymouth], 2009 [Bournemouth]; Knock-Out Cup winner: 2009 [Bournemouth].
RIDER LINKS: Son of Keith Newman (born: 3 May 1962, Poole, Dorset).
2010 STARTING AVERAGE: 7.21 (NL), 3.00 (PL).
ADDITIONAL INFO: Having initially been Newport's No. 8 rider, Newman officially came into the Wasps' declared 1-7 in May 2009 as a replacement for the injured Nick Simmons. However, by the end of the month, he himself had been replaced in the line-up by Tony Atkin. The Poole-born rider was subsequently recalled by the Wasps as a ‘doubling-up' rider - along with Kyle Hughes - in place of Atkin in early June. Subsequently though, at the start of the following month, his ‘doubling-up' partner was changed to Shelby Rutherford, as the club brought in a raft of changes to try and improve their on-track results.
A little over a week later, though, a further alteration saw Newport opt for a straight 1-7 line-up, with Marek Mroz coming in to replace both Newman and Rutherford. The Dorset lad continued his somewhat yo-yo association with the Wasps in August, however, when he was re-declared back into the line up after Mroz had sustained a broken leg. Regrettably - having helped Bournemouth to lift the Knock-Out Cup - the youngster ended the season with a serious injury himself, when he shattered his left thigh in six places during the Welsh Junior Championship at Queensway Meadows on 18 October.
He received the multiple injuries in heat ten when, on the third bend of lap three, he attempted to pass Andrew Aldridge. The two riders unfortunately collided and Newman was violently hit by both machines, before ending up in the air safety barrier. Aldridge was back on his feet quickly, whilst Newman was eventually taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital in extreme discomfort, wrecking his plans for a close season of racing in Australia. The injury also forced him to miss Bournemouth's Play-Off success over Plymouth, although he was still credited with a second successive League Championship-winning medal.
Newman still made to trip Down Under to help his recovery from a broken femur but, shortly after leaving, he surprisingly lost his team spot with the Buccaneers to Dan Halsey. However, within days of his shock exit from the Dorset club, Newport announced that he would represent their National League side in 2010. Furthering his career, it was revealed on 25 May that Birmingham had also signed him as a replacement for Australian Jake Anderson.
DATE OF BIRTH: 14 December 1991, Poole, Dorset.
