the Grand Prix photobomber!

the guy on the far left? pretending to be interested in the hood scoop... is simply jumping into a photo of Enzo and Phil Hill, pretty clever huh!

From Denise McCluggage's article on Hagerty.com http://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/Articles/2014/07/08/Grand-Prix-Photobomber

Bernard Cahier was the go-to guy who knew everybody on the scene and behind it. People with cameras might be clicking away, and Bernard would maneuver to join not the photographers but the group being photographed.

Over time, I noticed other instances and decided Bernard was the most photographed photographer in racing.

both of these are at the 1960 French Gran Prix

He was also the guy who became famous for handing Stirling Moss a coke, on a hairpin turn

Stirling Moss takes a Coke at the Hairpin Turn at Sebring in 1957. Moss had seen some of the photographers at the Hairpin the lap before drinking Cokes so he gave them the classic thirsty sign (pretending to bring a bottle to his lips) as he drove by.

Cahier grabbed a Coke bottle, opened it, and waited for Moss to come around again. As he did, Cahier handed the bottle to Moss. He drank it during the lap, then promptly deposited it in the grass at the hairpin on the next lap and gave them a wave as thanks.  Image by Smith Peter Kerr.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=975708605815695&set=gm.1176266642385154&type=3&permPage=1

Great article about this moment on http://vintagemotorsport.com/2020/04/moss-coke-bottle-incident/

https://revslib.stanford.edu

It turns out, he was a car salesman at a dealership owned by Phil Hill, and French by birth but American by adoption when he married a Californian



here Cahier passes a bottle of water to Harry Schell
http://zona-rapida.blogspot.com/2016/04/fotografia-bernard-cahier.html