no, not at all, Rock Shox are part of Sram, so the best sram riders get the prototypes, generaly the riders you will see donning "Blackbox" stuff (Srams R+D). Specialised arent part of sram but obviously decided not to put Troy on a proto frame for similar reasons
yes, it thought you meant the 2 were the same thing from the same people. just a bit of confusion really, but i do beleive he was on a 2011 demo 8 at the crankworx air dh race