takahashi has dropped down into the new moto2 class for 2010, partnering raffaele de rosa at tech 3. he took his first victory in the class at barcelona, after a ride-through penalty for andrea iannone. he finished the season 12th overall, for 2011 he signed to ride for gresini racing aboard a moriwaki, he took 2 podium finishes and finished 11th overall. for 2012 he joined ngm mobile forward racing and rode a suter for the first six rounds and a ftr for the remainder of the championship, the season was a disaster as takahashi only failed to score points until the final round of the season at valencia. he remained in moto2 for 2013 and joined idemitsu honda team asia, ran by tadayuki okada and rode a moriwaki once again. takahashi was dropped in favour of azlan shah kamaruzaman for the misano round onwards after failing to score a point in the opening 11 rounds.