Takahashi looking forward to Le Mans.

Yuki Takahashi believes one of his strongest points as a rider is dealing with slow hairpin corners, a feature of Le Mans - venue for this weekenꦯd's French Grand Prix.

But unfortu🍎nately for the MotoGP rookie, those same corner characteristics are 🅰also an area of weakness for his RC212V.

"I love this track - it is not a coincidence that I got my first 250 victory at Le Mans," said the Scot Honda rider, who beat the🙈n team-mate Andrea Dovizioso to victory in the 2006 event.

Takahashi, Spanish MotoGP 2009
Takahashi, Spanish MotoGP 2009
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Yuki Takahashi believes one of his strongest points as a rider is dealing with slow ha🍷irpin corners, a feature of Le Mans - venue for this weekend's French Grand Prix.

But unfortunately for the MotoGP rookie, those same corner cౠharacteristics are also an 💛area of weakness for his RC212V.

"I love this track - it is not a coincidence that I got my first 250 victory at Le Mans," said the Scot Honda rider, who beat tౠhen team-ma﷽te Andrea Dovizioso to victory in the 2006 event.

"In 250s, one of my best points was how to deal with the hairpins, but in MotoGP it's an iss🌺ue we have still to think about because we need to improve traction when we are accelerating out of the corners🗹.

"This is very important at Le Mans because there are many slow 🥀corners, so 𒆙we will be working hard on this side of machine performance."

Takahashi claimed his best MotoGP finish to date with twelfth last tiꦫme out at Jerez.

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