Kyle Newman (speedway rider)
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| Born |
14 December 1991 Poole, Dorset |
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| Nationality | English |
| Website | kylenewmanracing |
| Current club information | |
| British league |
Poole Pirates/ Plymouth Devils |
| Career history | |
| 2007-2008 | Weymouth wildcats |
| 2009 | Bournemouth buccaneers |
| 2009-2010 | Newport Wasps |
| 2010 | Birmingham Brummies |
| 2011 | Cradley Heathens |
| 2011 | Newcastle Diamonds |
| 2011, 2014- | Poole Pirates |
| 2012-13 | Somerset Rebels |
| 2012 | Peterborough Panthers |
| 2014- | Plymouth Devils |
| 2015-16 | Poole Pirates |
| Individual honours | |
| 2008 | Weymouth fans rider of the year |
| 2009 | Weymouth Young Guns individual winner |
| 2009 | Bournemouth most exciting rider |
| 2010 | Graham Warren memorial trophy, Birmingham |
| 2010 | Queensland U21 State Champion |
| 2011 | Julian Barnett Memorial trophy, Newcastle |
| 2012 | Golden Hammer winner, Dudley |
| 2013 | Belgium Gold helmet winner |
| 2014 | Belgium Gold helmet winner |
| 2014 | Plymouth Devils Rider of the year |
| 2014 | Poole Pirates Rider of the year |
| 2014 | Pinjar (Perth, Aus.) International champion |
| Team honours | |
| 2008 | Weymouth, NL Champions |
| 2009 | Bournemouth, NL Champions |
| 2009 | Bournemouth, NL KOC winners |
| 2011 | Poole, EL Champions |
| 2011 | Newcastle, Premier shield winners |
| 2012 | Somerset, PL league cup winners |
| 2013 | Somerset, PL champions |
| 2013 | Somerset PL KOC winners |
| 2014 | Poole, EL Champions |
| 2015 | Poole, EL Champions |
Kyle Newman (born 14 December 1991) is an English speedway rider.
Born in Poole, Newman has ridden for a variety of clubs during a career that began in 2007. He is best known for riding for his hometown club the Poole Pirates in the Elite League. He initially had a spell with them in 2011 and then returned as guest rider in the playoff final victory against Birmingham in 2013. In 2014 he returned after the introduction of 'fast track reserves' a system designed to aid the development of young British riders. It worked out well for Newman who was voted the Pirates rider of the year in a vote on the Bournemouth Echo website. He earned 60% of the vote, in second place Maciej Janowski earned 31% of the vote. After a successful season in 2014 Poole decided to bring Newman back into the team for 2015.
After having his first junior race at Somerset in July 2007 Newman was drafted into the Weymouth team for a few meetings as an injury replacement rider, these showed the Weymouth promotion enough to earn him a full team place for 2008 where he quickly became a crowd favourite culminating in the fans voting him their rider of the year on the clubs website poll.
Towards the end of the season Newman made contact with former English racer, Marcus Williams from Townsville, Australia, who was looking for a young English rider to sponsor to race in Australia that winter, here he also made contact with Steve Koppe (former Australian international racer), this was to be a very good move for Newman with what the Williams and Koppe Families and a team of people in Queensland, who from that moment on helped develop Newman into the racer that he is today, also teaching him to maintain and tune his own engines which he does to great effect (Newman has travelled to Australia every winter to date).
For 2009 Newman was set to rejoin Weymouth but upon his return to the UK the promotion insisted he did not take up a squad role with Newport in a higher league to help his development even though this would not affect his role at Weymouth, subsequently he was snapped up by the newly formed Bournemouth Buccaneers where he had a very good season improving considerably until a crash in the final month of the season saw him break his left femur badly resulting in having surgery to pin the leg, unsure if Newman was going to be fit for the 2010 season the Bournemouth management decided to release Newman so he was signed up by Newport for their National league team, half way through the season Newman had his first international at Gorican, Croatia in a world U21 qualifier just missing out on qualifying in a run off for 6th place, but this event earned him a place for the rest of the season with the Birmingham Premier league team.
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