Danilo Petrucci inflicted a last-lap defeat on 🅘;Marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso for a dream debut MotoGP victory, in front of his home fans at the Italian Grand Prix.

The Mugello win also paves the way f🐽or a 2020 factory Ducati contract extension, having gone into the weekend under pressure from Pramac's Jack Miller.

Ducati say they will discuss Dovizioso's future team-mate after the next round in Catalu🍷nya. But Petrucci's triumph - hot on the he🍌els of a podium in France - combined with another DNF for Miller, means the Italian is now the obvious candidate on paper.

Petrucci considered quitting as he struggled for rᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚesults earlier in his career, feeling MotoGP might not be for him, and viewed this year's factory Ducati chance as make-or-break: "If I cannot win with this bike, then I’m not 💫able to win with any bike."

"I thought m♛any times in the past to quit my career because ꦬI said 'this [MotoGP] is not my world'," Petrucci explained.

"Also, at the beginning of this year, because I have no contract for next se🍌ason I put pressure on myself and the ♏first three races were not so good.

"Once again it was Andrea tha꧅t helped me, telling 🌜me not to think about the future. Think about now. Try to enjoy what you are doing. Focus on your strong points, work hard.

"From Jerez, I just think, 'I wiℱll do my best. If it's enough, okay. If not, and if I cannot win with this bike, then I’m not able to win with any other bike, so [MotoGP] is not my w🍌orld'.

"But today I won, so maybe I will change my mind abou𒀰t the future!"

P🔴etrucci has now achieved the target set for him by Ducati and reiterated ✱before today's race, which he began from the outside of the front row.

"At the beginning of the season we had a meeting and Ducati sai🔜d for sure the target was to win, and I have to win, but not do anything strange with Andrea.

"Today there was no [special] meeting, t𒀰hey just said, 'try to win the race'.

"It was my target for this year so now I think I’m more,ꦍ let’s say, not safer, but relaxed [about the future]. We can think about improving the bike and trying to 🤪win the championship with Andrea."

Dovizioso, praised by Petr🌺ucci for his advice and support, was disappointed to lose points to Marquez but please💜d to see his team-mate win.

"I'm really happy for him, and to win in Mugello is the best race in our championship," Dovi sa🌠id. "I 🍨think this can affect his future [at the team]. I’m really happy about that.

"From what I know, I don’t think the contract will be decided soon. I think Ducati are in a situation where they can wait, but for sure this race will affect a ꦡlot."

One of the few MotoGP riders not to have competed in Moto3 or Moto2, Petrucci was instead a Superstock champion who went straight into the premier-class in 2012, riding for the smallest (Ioda) t💛eam and slowest bike.

Hard work eventually paid off in the form of improving teams, machinery and results, all culminating in Sunday's emotional 0.043s victoওry over Honda's five-time world champion Marquez.

"It’s really great. I still haven't realised that I won my first race," said🎶 Petrucci, who like Marquez was suffering from flu all weekend. "This morning I woke up in good condition, but I said it’s going to be ve⛎ry, very hot.

"At the sta🔥rt there🏅 were a lot of people trying to stay in the front. After some laps I was able to take the lead and I tried to save my energy and tyres for the final laps... I thought maybe on the last lap someone would try to pass me. I was right."

Slipstreamed by Marquez ⛦and Dovizioso at the start of the final lap, Petrucci responded with a race-winning double-pass as he sliced u🗹nder them both at the apex of turn one, sitting Dovizioso up in the process.

"When I saw Marc and Dovi passed me, I said 'no!🌄 Another t🎀ime leading and I will finish third, maybe fourth'. Then they went a little bit wide. I just found a little space and I went in.

"I꧂’m so sorry that Andrea had to sit🧔 up, but I knew that today I had a great chance to reach my first victory."

Popular for his self-deprecating humour, Petrucci - four-times a rꦛunner-up in MotoGP - quipped he still expected victory to be snatchedꦫ away at the final moment:

"When I was leading out of the last co﷽rner I said, 'it's the story of my life, I will go out of the last corner in first and finish the ra♛ce in third'.

"I put fourthও gear, fifth gear - waiting for Marc and Dovi to pass me - then I put sixth and in that moment I cross🃏ed the finish line.

"I had been trying to manage my energy during the race, th𝓰en after the finish I started to scream anꦚd it was harder to do the slow down lap because I couldn't breathe!"

LCR Honda's triple race winner Cal Crutchlow is the only other rider on the current grid not to have cꦐompeted in the smaller grand prix classe𝄹s.

"Petru🧜cci is going to give Dovi a hard time," Crutchlow predicted during February's Sepang test, adding that the #9 is widely underestimated "be꧃cause he came from Superbike."

Petrucci is now fourth in th꧙e world championship, 21-points behind Dovizioso but 40 clear of Miller.