IT was perhaps fitting that Poole-born Kyle Newman made history by becoming the first Bournemouth rider to take the chequered flag for the newly-formed club last night.

The talented 17-year-old tore around the 385-metre circuit at Smallbrook Stadium to claim victory in heat two as Buccaneers grabbed a 5-1 that gave them the lead for the first time.

It was an advantage speedway’s newest team never looked like they were going to relinquish in front of a healthy sized Isle of Wight crowd.

The name Kyle Newman, who went on to impress by piling up 10 paid 11 points from his reserve berth, will surely become the answer to a quiz question that is bound to crop up a lot in the future.

Fast forward to next winter, when the Poole Riders' Equipment Fund hold one of their regular fund-raising events to raise cash for Pirates and Buccaneers racers, and picture the scene.

Quiz master: Who was the first rider to win a heat for Bournemouth Buccaneers and where?

Answer: Kyle Newman at Isle of Wight on Tuesday, April 7 in a thumping 57-34 challenge match triumph.

The teenager, who is highly-rated by Poole chief Matt Ford, whose club promote the Castle Cover Buccaneers, created club history by completing a comfortable tapes-to-flag success.

Team-mate Aaron Baseby tucked in behind him for maximum points, with Islanders’ Dan Berwick trailing in third with Andy Braithwaite already having retired after hitting the fence.

On this form, Newman, who has improved in leaps and bounds over the past year after spending three months racing in Australia during the winter, won’t be in a Bournemouth reserve berth for long.

The son of ex-Poole junior rider Keith Newman, he has a good riding style that he will surely hone further with Buccaneers and his Premier League outfit Newport this year.

It definitely looks like Kyle’s decision to give up full-time education and go down under last October, missing the final meetings of his previous club Weymouth’s successful Conference League title challenge, was a good one.

After following team-mate Jerran Hart home in third in heat four, Newman showed his tenacity by regaining the lead he had relinquished to Ben Hopwood on the same lap to triumph in race eight.

Newman’s piece-de-resistance, though, came in the penultimate heat when he bravely swooped outside Scott Meakins and tactical man Brendan Johnson in separate manoeuvres on the opening lap as his spectacular third-to-first burst put the icing on his Buccaneers’ debut.

Isle of Wight, with Tom Brown and Nick Simmons sharing five early heat wins, kept in touch until race 11 when Bournemouth’s strength in depth took over.

Six Buccaneers riders grabbed race wins, with the seventh, Aaron Baseby, following a team-mate home twice as Dorset’s newest club firmly laid down their National League title marker over an Islanders side expected to challenge strongly for honours.

The return leg of the National League Challenge match against the Isle of Wight is at Poole on Thursday April 23.

HEAT DETAILS

Isle of Wight 34: 1 Tom Brown (3-3-3-0^-1) 10, 2 Ben Hopwood (1-fell-2-0) 3, 3 Ryan Sedgmen (ret-1*-2-ret) 3+1, 4 Brendan Johnson (2-2-1*-4^) 9+1, 5 Nick Simmons (3-3-ret-1-fell exc) 7, 6 Andy Braithwaite (ret-fell exc) 0, 7 Dan Berwick (1-ret-0-0-1) 2, 8 Scott Meakins (0) 0.

Team managers: Kevin Shepherd and Chris Hunt.

Bournemouth 57: 1 Jay Herne (2-3-2*-3-3) 13+1, 2 Andrew Aldridge (0-0-1-3) 4, 3 Luke Priest (1-2-1*-3) 7+1, 4 Mark Baseby (3-1*-2-1) 7+1, 5 Jerran Hart (2-2-3-2*-2*) 11+2, 6 Aaron Baseby (2*-1*-0-2*) 5+3, 7 Kyle Newman (3*-1-3-3) 10+1.

Team managers: Garry May and Neil Vatcher.

Referee: Christina Turnbull.

Ht 1: (re-run) Brown, Herne, Hopwood, Aldridge, 74.4 (4-2).

Ht 2: Newman, A Baseby, Berwick, Braithwaite (retired), 74.7 (5-7).

Ht 3: M Baseby, Johnson, Priest, Sedgmen, 7.28 (7-11).

Ht 4: Simmons, Hart, Newman, Berwick (retired), 71.8 (10-14).

Ht 5: Herne, Johnson, Sedgmen, Aldridge, 73.9 (13-17).

Ht 6: Brown, Hart, A Baseby, Hopwood (retired), 73.7 (16-20).

Ht 7: Simmons, Priest, M Baseby, Berwick, 72.3 (19-23).

Ht 8: Newman, Hopwood, Aldridge, Berwick, 73.8 (21-27).

Ht 9: Hart, Sedgmen, Johnson, A Baseby, 71.8 (24-30).

Ht 10: Brown, M Baseby, Priest, Hopwood, 73.4 (37-33).

Ht 11: (re-run) Aldridge, Herne, Braithwaite (fell excluded), Simmons (retired), 73.2 (27-38).

Ht 12: (re-run) Priest, A Baseby, Berwick, Sedgmen (retired), 73.2 (28-43).

Ht 13: Herne, Hart, Simmons, Brown^ (tactical rider, double points), 71.5 (29-48).

Ht 14: Newman, Johnson^ (tactical rider, double points), M Baseby, Meakins, 72.3 (33-52).

Ht 15: (re-run) Herne, Hart, Brown, Simmons (fell excluded), 71.9 (34-57).