This vertigo-inducing image captures the hair-raising moment a daredevil pilot flies upside down over a French marina.

Fearless Nicolas Ivanoff took to the skies in France's first-ever Red Bull Air Race, performing knuckle-biting stunts over the Port of Cannes.

He was captured from a camera on the wing of another plane, flying over the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean as a trail of water vapour blasted out behind him.