Mugello race winner Jorge Loreꦡnzo says memories of his 250cc battle with Alex de Angelis in 2005 spurred him to a dramatic victory in Italy.

Lorenzo has extended his lead in the MotoGP Worl✱d Championship to 10 points over Marc Marquez after coming out on top of a thrilling last-lap battle between the pair, with the Yamaha rider out-dragging the Repsol Honda on the straight to win by only 0.019 seconds.

The 29-year-old had considered settling for second place on a frenetic final lap, but Lorenzo says he was inspired to attack one more time as he recalled his las🦩t-gasp pass on de Angelis 11 years ago, which gave him second place in the race behind Dani Pedrosa.

"I didn't expect Marquez [to be] so s🧔trong and so consistent, so with him on the back I tried to escape and I used a lot of energy from my body and🍰 in the last part of the race I didn't have so much energy," said Lorenzo.

"When he overtook me on the last lap I thought,ꦚ 'ok, stay behind him and see what happens, see if he makes some mistak♔es that I can take profit of'.

"I was behind and when I arrived in the last chicane the memories of 2005 passed into my mind when I overtook [Alex] de Angelis in 250, so I had his crazy idea to make the same. I opened a lot of throttle and I entered so fast, maybe too fast because Marquez again overtook me, so I thought I was losing the race because normally in MotoGP it's not easy to pass the rider in front b♋y slipstream," he add𝓡ed.

"Luckily today the rider in front was Marc with hi🔴s Honda, which is struggling this year with its engine, so I fast into the last corner and going quite close and I recovered a lot of metres to win this unexpected victory."

Lorenzo, who suffered a blown engine in morning warm-up - a fate also encountered by team-mate Valentino Rossi during the race - said he made some improvements in braking that enabled him to be stronger in the race.

"In the warm-up I felt better and we made some changes with the setting of the bike that improve slightly my feeling, especially in the braking but also in the c♓orner with more grip," he said.

"Luckily after the Moto2 race the tarmac was slippy and the pace was not very fast and I was happy to 🎃make a good start, leading the race from the first lap and put my rhythm.

"To be honest I didn't feel very comfortable during all the race, especially in the middle of the corner because the front was pushing so much asꦚ we had a setting with a lot of weight going to the rear but not into the front.

"From the middle of the race the front was pu�💮�shing so I could not stay in the 1m '47 that I expected," Lorenzo added.

"But Marc made a very good race pace and looking at the lap times in the practice, I didn't expect him to stay so consistent all t꧒he race but they made a good step.

"We expected that Vinales and Iannone couldn't follow us so finally when Marc oღvertook me, he is a great fighter and I thought it was better to finish the race in second place and take the points. But when I had this memory🙈 I tried and I was lucky my engine today was fast."

Lorenzo admitted that luck h🦹ad been on his side at Mugello, while in contrast Ros🔯si had been dealt a bad hand.

"We've been very lucky today with our engine because one lap less in the🍬 warm-up, we wouldn't break in the warm-up and we would race with the same engine. For the opposite, Ross♍i was unlucky and he is now quite far in the championship," he said.

"I'💃m lucky also that we won the race or we would go to Montmelo with the same points as Marc and having 10 points gives you confidence."