[1] After having his first junior race at Somerset in July 2007 Newman was drafted into the Weymouth Wildcats Conference League 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 club's website poll.

Williams and Koppe and a team of people in Queensland helped develop Newman into the racer that he is today, also teaching him to maintain and tune his own engines.

He was signed by the newly formed Bournemouth Buccaneers,[1] where he improved 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.

[1] In 2014, he returned to the Pirates team after the introduction of 'fast track reserves' a system designed to aid the development of young British riders.

[9] Newman was re-signed by Poole as vice captain until he was dropped during the 2017 season, subsequently being signed by Leicester Lions,[10] and also raced for Ipswich Witches in 2017.