Red Bull Racing gets behind the wheel of high-performance sedan for track work

Infiniti’s answer to the M3/M4 – and even the M5, if you believe the company president – will complete its maiden drive in public at the Goodwood Festival of Speed later tonight, Australian time.

The Q50 Eau Rouge was first unveiled in Detroit back in January, but no technical information about the formidable sedan was forthcoming until Geneva, a couple of months later. Since then we’ve been told a prototype has undergone testing at Britain’s Millbrook proving ground.

The car tested at Millbrook (pictured) is the same vehicle appearing at Goodwood, featuring the GT-R’s 3.8-litre twin-turbo V6 that is now confirmed to be rated at 424kW in the Infiniti application – more than enough to see off the larger M5 in pure power terms. Getting behind the wheel for the Goodwood jaunt, in the ‘First Glance’ category, will be Infiniti Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner, and his test and reserve driver, Sebastian Buemi.

Infiniti has held back from announcing the Q50 Eau Rouge will enter production, but each subsequent ‘photo opportunity’ brings it that much closer to commercial reality.