Infiniti has revealed its latest concept, the Q60 Project Black S, at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. The new car is based on Infiniti’s two-door coupe and has been designed to highlight the technical partnership between Infiniti and the Renault Sport F1 team. To emphasize the connection Infiniti has given the Q60 some race car-style modifications and a much more aggressive look.

Infiniti, as part of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, has been working with Renault Sport F1 to help develop the energy recovery system (ERS) that can be found in this year’s Formula 1 car, the R.S. 17. The ERS collects energy during braking and from the heat of the exhausts. It’s then converted to electrical energy and stored in lithium-ion batteries before being used to spin the turbocharges turbine shaft or directly send drive to the transmission.

Although the engine in the Q60 Project Black S is currently unchanged from the production Q60, Infiniti intend to adapt the F1 car’s ERS package for the Black S and help boost its power by 25 per cent giving it 500bhp.

The standard Q60 is a very dignified and elegant car, and it isn’t the most obvious candidate to be given a more macho makeover. But when asked if it was difficult to reinterpreting the Q60’s sleek lines into an aggressive track-focussed machine, Matt Weaver, Infiniti’s European design director, responded ‘The Q60 has a strong image. So no, it was easy to contrast the elegance and the car takes it very naturally.’