In Brazil they have a championship that races without the jumps. Its called Velocross.

Hello in Uruguay. Looking at the video, it may just be that particular class that is on the line there, but those mostly look like low-cost trail bikes instead of MX bikes. (ie: light steel frames, standard right-side-up forks, some air-cooled jugs in there, and I think I even saw a drum rear brake in the mix).

Is Velocross maybe a type of racing specific for non-moto trail bikes? A modern moto track would beat those things to death. That actually looks really really fun! Kind of like the "Mini-4 stroke" class some local tracks use to have here for all the XR-100 pit bikes and such. So much fun to try and ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike faster.

They call those bikes a 250 National in Brazil.  Here in the states it’s a Honda CRF250F.  The CRF250F is made in Brazil.  It’s all those guys can afford, Jap MX bike is way above most in Brazil.  There are several companies I Brazil that specialize in CRF250F parts.  There are a ton of hop up parts for them.  They don’t just race them on flat turn tracks, they MX hell out of hopped up 250Fs.  
 

I built one.  Here’s pic of mine loaded with Brazilian hop up parts, including Tuscany Racing custom rear shock and Tuscany dual chamber fork conversion. 
 

That would be really fun to race.

Here is the rear shock Tuscany Racing in Brazil built for me.  Owner of Tuscany Racing is from somewhere in Europe.  He’s a former MXGP racer am mechanic.  He also does suspension work for MX GP racers in Europe.  
This is a pic of the shock he built for me.  I’ve kicked around sending my forks off my Honda R and have him spring and valve for my weight. 

Several Brazilian companies make big bore kits CRF250F’s.  Mine is stock bore.  I added EJK tuner, Belparts Brazilian made stainless exhaust, opened up the air box.  I probably increased the HP by 2 or 3 HP.  Might make 24 HP at best lol!.   It’s just a fun bike, kinda pit bike trail bike for me.  Although as low as it geared, it’s quick as a cat for no more HP.  With the reworked suspension it corners like a bandit.  It’s fun to ride.  I’ve taken it timUltimate MX in Alvin, Tx and rode,it,a time or two.  It’s heavy and doesn’t like to catch air, neater do at 68 but it’s fun to ride.  

We have a similar thing in New Zealand we call Mini TT - a.k.a flat track Mx Racing  

Every time I see something from NZ I wish I was a Kiwi. 

That looks fun as shit. Those gates look super jumpable. How do they keep guys from just going over them? Punishable by death?

Be careful what you wish for 🙂

Thats interesting. Off topic but I just saw this the other day, Unicycle racing.

https://youtu.be/mdI_xCnDzHk?si=x68EgasktPIVLZBf

Looks very similar to the barley stubble races we have here in Ireland. 

https://youtu.be/E3emVjswd6g

Count me in 

Grass in the morning ruts at the end of the day. Best memories from my childhood. Was lucky enough the old boys let me join the VMX races on tracks like this with my KX60 around Nelson/Blenheim. So much fun. 

In Germany its called "stoppelcross". Raced plenty of those

If there was a series like that…motocross style, purely natural terrain…I’d go to every race…

I went to my first “local” race here in Thailand today. It was like I dropped into one of those YouTube videos. 

Honda Wave 110s, KLX140s, CRF230s, bikes with headlights, bikes with street tires, bikes with all kinds of crazy parts, bikes without some parts. It made me want throw a few grand at a 140 and shred. 
 

Oh, and the track was at the beach. 
 

They did a 20 lap “marathon” race and about 1/3rd of the field DNF’d lol poor air cool bikes hitting a sand section in Thailand heat

Last pic looks to be running the same fork setup as Sexton

Homie was scrubbing like Chase too.

Great rider. I race with him in the Thailand Championship. He also eliminated me and won the “drag race” competition today (gate drop and around a cone and back…he was not on this bike haha)
 

Here is his daughter on the podium with my dog. This pic gives me Monsters Inc. vibes (deep movie btw).

We have that in France (and probably all over the world), it's a common form of amateur racing, really for everyone. Here, it's called a meadow race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udq8NPgeQkQ

He has Sexton's forks, the (in)famous WP KYB!

I guess the closest thing we have to that is a Hare and Hound, but not all that close.  I’d guess racing on a track like the video top of the post in Texas would draw more people than race could handle.  

Mike Kidd tried to boot up something similar. Held about a year's worth of events and then shut it down. Didn't draw enough interest.

Great, different and diverse series around the world!!

Endurance Championship Protos 50cc, Catalonia, Spain.

Automatic 50cc big size framed dirtbikes.

https://youtu.be/OLc_NldDfsc?feature=shared

Oh man, that looks fun!

This takes me back to when I lived in Austin, TX back around 2000, a track called RPMX I think popped up out of nowhere. Hills and off cambers, it was so rad, like 20 min drive to the joint. My friends hated it but I absolutely loved that place. It was short lived.

Natural terrain tracks should totally make a come back!