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 for a 2020 factory Ducati contract extension, having gone into the we🐻ekend under pressure from Pramac's Jack Miller.

Ducati say they will discuss D♛ovizioso's future team-mate after the next round in Catalunya. But Petrucci's triumph - hot on the heels of a podium in France - combined with another DNF for Miller, means the Italian is now the obvious candidate on paper.

Petrucc🎀i considered quitting as he struggled for results earlier in his career, feeling MotoGP might not be for him, and viewed this year's factory Ducati ch💞ance as make-or-break: "If I cannot win with this bike, then I’m not able to win with any bike."

"I thought many times in the past to quit my career because I said 'this [MotoGP] 𝄹;is not my world'," Petrucci explained.

"Also, at the beginning of🅺 this year, because I have no contract for next season I put pressure on myself and the first three races were not so goo𒈔d.

"Once again it was Andrea tha🌺t helped me, telling me noꦺt 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 thওink, 'I will 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 world'.

"But today I won, so maybe I will change my minꦺd about the future!"

Petrucci 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 t🍨he beginning of the season we had a meeting and Ducati said for sure the target was to win, and I have to win, but not do anything s♉trange with Andrea.

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

"It was my target 🃏for this year so now I thi💝nk I’m more, 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 Petrucci for his advice a🌳nd support, was disappointed to lose points to Marquez but pleased to see his team-mate win.

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

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

One of the few M꧃otoGP 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) team and slowest bike.

Hard work eventually paid off in the form of improving tea💮ms, machinery and results, all culminatiꦐng in Sunday's emotional 0.043s victory 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 very, very hot.

"At the start 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 la♚p, Petrucci responded with a race-winning double-pass as he sliced under them both at the apex of turn one, sitting Dovizioso up in the p🐎rocess.

"When I saw Marc and Dovi passed me, I said 'no! Another time leading and I will finish third, 𓃲maybe 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 reachꦫ my first victory."

Popular for his self-deprecatingไ humour, Petrucci - four-times a runner-up in MotoGP - quipped he still expected victory🎃 to be snatched away at the final moment:

"When I was leading out of the last corner I said, 'it🔜's the story of my life, I will go out of the last corner in first and finish the race in third'.

"I put fourth gear, fiftღh gear - waiting fo♐r Marc and Dovi to pass me - then I put sixth and in that moment I crossed the finish line.

"I had been trying to manage my energy during the race, then after the finish I started to scream and ꧟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 cu♐rrent grid not to♛ have competed in the smaller grand prix classes.

"Petrucci💛 is going to give Dovi a hard time," Crutchlow predicted during February's Sepang test, adding that the #9 is widely underestimated "because he came from Superbike."

Petrucci is nꦓow fourth in the world championship, 21-points behind Doviz𒉰ioso but 40 clear of Miller.