An interesting situation presented itself today at the Dunlop tire test at Daytona. Shortly after the motorcycle left the track for the final time, the teams began to migrate men and machines from the pit lane back to the Daytona garage area, a distance of perhaps a hundred yards.

Personnel from one major factory team, which shall remain nameless, walked into their garage area and found several mechanics surrounding their brand new 600, one mechanic laying on the ground looking intently at the underside of the partially disassembled race machine, another shooting photos of the new bike with a digital camera.

Problem: the mechanics examining and photographing the FX 600 were not from the team which fields the bike. They were, in fact, Japanese mechanics from a rival team, a team that shall remain nameless as well.

The rival mechanics quickly left the garage, or were asked to leave.

The nameless team that fields the FX motorcycle in question realized that the rival nameless team had just taken pictures of work they had spent years developing and refining. Once the team manager of that team was made aware of what occurred, he quickly walked down to the rival's garage and found the Japanese mechanic with digital camera. The team manager asked for the memory card of the camera and explained he was leaving with either the card or the camera itself.

A compromise was reached by the pictures on digital camera's memory card being erased, somewhat voluntarily.