Speechless! Gage Linville Rides To First Career Podium at Foxborough Supercross

“I’m pretty speechless right now, I really don’t have words,” Linville said in his post-race TV interview following Foxborough Supercross. “As a kid, you’ve always dreamed of this moment and for this moment to come true, is just unreal. Yeah, I’m really speechless right now.”

Gage Linville was speechless. Literally.

His podium speech following an improbable podium in the 250SX Class at a muddy Foxborough Supercross on Saturday wasn’t conjecture. No, he literally could not speak, as Racer X’s Jason Weigandt found out post-race in his “Weege Show.”

As it turns out, when Linville went down in the first turn crash with RJ Hampshire and others, he took a handlebar to the throat and was struggling to even talk after the race.

“It really hurts to talk,” he told Weege. “That was literally [in response to his podium interview]. I can’t get out but a couple words.”

Linville should be speechless. His third-place finish on Saturday is the stuff movies are made from.

If you follow the amateur racing scene, you knew who Linville was. He climbed the amateur ranks going up again the likes of Ryder D and Ty Masterpool and even his fellow podium finisher on Saturday, Cullin Park. He won a Loretta’s title (2019 125 B/C) over Levi Kitchen. All this is to say: Linville was good coming out of the amateur ranks. While he’s shown flashes in Monster Energy AMA Supercross since turning pro in 2023, nothing was like Saturday night.

Down in the first turn, Linville, who rides from the Dirt Bike Depot WMR KTM team, thought about pulling off. He thought about saving his bike.

“I was really close to just pulling in,” he said. “As a privateer, I didn’t want to destroy my bike for next weekend. But I said, ‘I can’t quit.’”

Good thing he didn’t, as Linville slopped his way around a treacherous Foxborough take to his first career podium, even though he had no idea where he stood.

“I had no clue what position I was in the whole race,” Linville said. “My mechanic, we didn’t even use the pit board, and he gave me hand signals, believe it or not. And I came around and he just gave me thumbs down. And after that he started giving me thumbs up. And the last four laps I knew I passed some people, and my best career finish has been 11th. So, my goal was, I got to get top ten. So, when I crossed the line, I thought, ‘Okay, maybe I’m close to the 10th mark’ and the last three laps he just didn’t even give me no signals! I’m like, well, just go for it for there. And I came off and they told me I was in third. And it was like, I still can’t believe it.”

Who knows if this is the catalyst that Linville needed to break through in the sport or just a one-time podium. Either way, he’ll never forget it, even if he couldn’t speak about it at the time.