Well I would be amazed at Ducati's lack of security in allowing a photo to be taken quite so openly and then distributed on the net. There is normally a complete embargo on cameras/mobiles extending to all staff or anyone working on or testing pre-production models. Also, almost without exception, every test bike, whether it is close to the finished product or not never runs with coloured bodywork and even at this stage if the 1098/1199 are anything to go by, would be heavily disguised. The only time a finished bike would see the light of day before a launch would be for studio shots for the brochures and promo videos. These again are subject to strict security. Another reason I dispute this as genuine is that when models have broken cover before Ducati has usually responded pretty quickly. Remember the leaked brochure photos of the 1098 by a Ducati employee, that meant they were forced to release the promo video before EICMA 2007. The fact that they are saying nothing in response to this image, speaks volumes, as they are clearly not concerned by it. I think we can all drew conclusions from that.
If you are so sure it is genuine can you elaborate as to where and when it was taken and what was the occasion, testing, photo shoot etc? If this thing was real, there would have been some shots of it circulating the track. There are, as have already been posted on here, some glaring issues with this image. For starters, there is no join between the upper fairing and the nose cone/over tank panels, which would mean this was a one piece construction. Not exactly practical/feasible or possible to construct, which screams photoshop. Also there are quite clear signs of digital editing of this photo around the rear brake/footrest area and lower fairing edge. You will need to come up with something more concrete to convince anyone on here its real I am afraid. Admittedly someone has gone to great effort to match the image to the spy shots of the test bikes, but that does not make it genuine.
