It looks like an impact paint residue to me - maybe including a sliver of fairing.
Lots of foreign cars in London - including ones with plates in Arabic… but I agree it looks Italian because the driver actually appears to have stopped, the gates don’t look security conscious enough to be London (i.e. you can see through them) and the bloke standing in the background with the tight fitting jeans and trainers just ‘looks’ Italian from his style
A guy from the Ducati factory chose to borrow the Desmo instead of his vehicle to go and pick up lunch for him and some of his colleagues and this is what happened!! An expensive lesson indeed!
This story was published by Motorcyclist magazine and written by journalist Alan Cathcart.
Hehe all the clues where there I guess wondered how it got there…was he carrying the pizza on top of the front mudguard, or maybe on the tank of the bike, and on impact slid off, hit the bumper of the car and then slid back onto the front mudguard…