"Those last two laps were very emotional in the car, but I kept saying, 'Keep pushing, '" he recalled.
Hornish closed too rapidly with two laps to go and nearly ran into Marco's back in the third turn.
The Pescarolo team had cut the deficit to two laps during the night.
The 125cc race was halted twice because of accidents, which were not serious, and only two laps were completed.
"The true performance came out in qualifying and in the first one or two laps in the race, " he added.
"In the first two laps I just put my head down, caught Finnegan and got by him quite quickly, " said Anstey.
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"At the end I had two laps, " Hamilton told the Associated Press.
The tenacious Alonso had the McLaren in his sights and had closed to within 1.2secs of Button with two laps to go.
On the track, Hamilton had survived a frantic last two laps in a late shower of rain to apparently score a superb win.
In a race that was decided on tyre strategy, Brawn said the Kubica incident proved costly as Schumacher had to pit again two laps later.
But fellow Ethiopian Markos Geneti appeared ominously on Bekele's shoulder with two laps to go before surging past him at the bell to win in 8:14.28.
Hamilton lost the lead to Raikkonen with an early spin but fought back in the closing laps to re-take the lead with two laps to go.
But with less than two laps to go, the grandstand to my left suddenly erupted when Sebastian Vettel passed Hamilton to push him down to sixth.
The 23-year-old from northern England received superb support from teammate Emma Pooley on the testing two laps of Box Hill and took her chance when it emerged.
Button pitted two laps later and returned in third, resuming the lead with 12 laps to go - but the action didn't stop there for the Briton.
But within two laps Kubica passed him into the first corner in what looked like a co-ordinated piece of team play as BMW Sauber tried to maximise their chances.
With the two-hour time limit coming up, the race looked set to finish two laps short of the scheduled 61 as the drivers finally got the go-ahead to continue racing.
But two laps later Rossi got his nose back in front for the last time, leaving Biaggi to settle for second - his best finish of the season so far.
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Danica Patrick, the pole winner two weeks ago at Daytona, struggled with her car from the start, going two laps down by the 60th lap and later getting penalized for a tire violation.
Edwards got a good push from defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski on the restart with two laps left and pulled away from there, winning for the first time since Las Vegas in 2011.
You can run two laps of the traffic-free city centre course, which was first staged in 1996 and now attracts the best quality field for an event of its kind in the East of England.
Lorenzo, who admitted he had come into the weekend still not fully recovered from a pre-season hand injury, had a quiet race until he suddenly leapt into contention with two laps to go, bursting into second place.
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In a chaotic final couple of laps, Heidfeld jumped from eighth to third place on the track with what he called a "hero or zero decision" to come in for wet-weather tyres with two laps to go.
The seven-time champion closed in on his former team-mate at more than a second a lap, and was right on the Honda's tail with two laps to go, but the Brazilian was equal to the challenge and held the German off.
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Just two laps after Alonso came in early to take on more fuel, Piquet's crash forced the deployment of the safety car and the subsequent pit stop of nearly all other drivers, an action that promoted Alonso to fifth from where he went onto to secure victory.
Just two laps after Alonso came in early to take on more fuel, Piquet's crash forced the deployment of the safety car and the subsequent pit stop of nearly all the other drivers -- an action that promoted Alonso to fifth from where he went on to secure victory.
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From his position at the head of the grid, Vettel never looked in any danger of being caught and -- apart from briefly conceding his lead to Webber after making his second and final pit stop on lap 45 before regaining it two laps later -- the result was never in doubt.
There are six races scheduled on the programme, four solo races and two sidecar events with two special parade laps of honour.
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But Montoya might also reflect on the wisdom of such a manoeuvre after just two of the 73 laps.
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