That's kinda like saying that NASCAR needs local tracks to start running Cup cars as a class to bolster the national series, IMO. But NASCAR doesn't need that to happen; they have a beautiful feeder of myriad late model stock car tracks from sea to shining sea. The USAC National Midget Series has that too, but obviously, not to the extent of pavement late models. Badger Midgets are one of them. Even way up in the northwest nook of the continental United States at Skagit Speedway you can find a "feeder" midget class.

USAC Midgets is to midgets as IndyCar is to American formula racing- the comparisons are many. They are both the top series of their niche, while both see support from various underling series' of lesser equipment, lesser financial commitment, and lesser talent. In neither of these two top dog series' can you run the exact same equipment you ran in a lesser series. And both of these top American open-wheeled series feature roughly the same types of car counts, averaged out in a long-ish view, while both have premiere events where car counts soar (It's crazy the lure that IMS has on open-wheel people, isn't it? BC39/Indy 500).