MOTOR RACING ROUNDUP : Michael Wins at Andretti Family Picnic

Milwaukee’s Miller 200 was a happy family occasion for the Andrettis.

Michael Andretti won it, cousin John was second, father Mario was third and brother Jeff was 11th.

“I’ve said it before, but this is what dreams are made of,” Mario Andretti said as he beamed across at Michael and John. “The odds against something like this must be enormous.”

The winner of Sunday’s 200-lap race at Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway overcame early handling problems and took advantage of electrical problems that befell Al Unser Jr. and Rick Mears in earning a third Milwaukee victory.

“If it’s a little luck in this one, I’ll take it,” said Michael Andretti, who claimed the one-mile oval owed him a victory after he ran out of fuel while leading less than two laps from the end last year and wound up fifth.

Michael never faltered, beating John to the finish line by 22.481 seconds and setting a race record of 134.557 m.p.h., breaking the mark of 133.670 set last year by Unser.

Mario, also Michael’s teammate and winless since July of 1988, joked that it was just the younger Andrettis who kept him out of Victory Circle this time.

“I should have set up a nice plumbing business and let them run that,” he kidded.

Bobby Rahal was the first non-Andretti, finishing fourth, two laps down.

Dale Earnhardt, Harry Gant and Mark Martin all looked like the guys to beat in the NASCAR Budweiser 500 at Dover, Del.

So Ken Schrader beat ‘em.

The Concord, N.C., driver led here and there, and Earnhardt, Martin and Gant piled up long stretches in front.

Then, Schrader took the lead with 78 laps left and stayed there in the grueling 500-lap race on the high-banked one-mile oval at Dover Downs International Speedway.

“I told the guys, ‘I’m just going to poke and get to where we’re safe,’ ” he said. “I’m not saying we were faster all day but there’s a lot of times we were running fifth we didn’t have to be fifth.”

Schrader grabbed the lead from Earnhardt on Lap 423 and won by 1.18 seconds at an average speed of 120.192 m.p.h. He collected $64,800.

Earnhardt was second after leading 187 laps. Gant finished third, followed by Ernie Irvan and Martin.

The victory was Schrader’s second of the season and fourth of his career. He had single victories the past two seasons and won March 18 at Atlanta in the Motorcraft 500.

“We were doing all we could to catch Kenny,” said Earnhardt, the defending Winston Cup champion and current points leader. “That’s the second straight race he’s beaten us. Last week at Charlotte he beat us for second. . . . I’m going to have to have a talk with that boy.”

Nelson Piquet of Brazil won the 23rd Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal after runaway leader Nigel Mansell of Britain developed gearbox trouble and slowed on the last lap.

It marked the first time this season the pole and the race were not won by Brazil’s Ayrton Senna.

Senna’s McLaren Honda held third place off the grid but slowed suddenly and pulled off the track on the 25th lap.

Piquet’s Benneton Ford finished the 69 laps of the 2.8 mile Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in 1 hour 36 minutes 27 seconds.

Davy Jones led all but seven laps Sunday in a victory in the Nissan Grand Prix of Ohio IMSA Camel GT sports car race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course at Lexington.

Jones averaged 107.275 m.p.h. in his Jaguar XJR-16 in his third victory of the season. He earned $30,000.

Wayne Taylor finished second in his Chevy Intrepid, 21.753 seconds behind Jones.

Teammate Tommy Kendall, the pole-sitter, was third in another Chevy Intrepid.