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An excellent summary of the 1986 season competitors there KA - top man!
Austin Rover Motorsport or the ARWCT ('Austin Rover World Championship Team') ran their cars from Cowley for the likes of Tony Pond and Malcolm Wilson. Occasionally a third car would be entered for the likes of Marc Duez or Harri Toivenen - the latter on the 1986 1000 Lakes and RAC Rallies as you suggested.
Schmidt Motorsport ran the Belga car for Duez in selected European Rally Championship event, most of which were in Belgium. Eklund's Clarion car was the same, with a bias towards Germany though.
Rally Engineering Developments (R-E-D) ran the Austin Rover Motorsport car C996 LCA (and later Computervision car D750 PDM) for Llewellyn in the British Rally Championship, along with Toivenen's Unipart car C997 LCA. They also ran Willie Rutherford's Sanyo / Comet car C998 LCA on the National series, boss Geoff Fielding in C288 JFM on a variety of individual events, and Roger Clark in the 1987 National series in the ex-Llewellyn car D750 PDM. R-E-D also prepared a car for a Swiss privateer in 1986 but Group B cars were banned before it was delivered to the owner. Clinton Smith acquired this car D749 PDM and used it a year or two later on the British National scene.
David Richards Autosport (DRA, now Prodrive) ran the Rothmans or Racing cars for Jimmy McRae on the British Rally Championship in C84 RBD and C749 LFM, along with Billy Coleman's Irish Tarmac Championship entry C84 RBD. DRA also prepared cars for Swiss driver Jean Luc Thevenod C818 PRP - which he used on the 1986 Swedish Rally and 1986 Criterium Alpin amongst others, and another for Finnish driver Mika Arpianen, also C84 RBD? - but that was rolled heavily on the 1986 1000 Lakes Rally.
Several other instances of the drivers using Cowley cars were; Llewellyn on 1986 Marlboro Port Talbot National Rally in C818 FFC, Coleman on 1986 Shell Donegal Rally in C869 EUD, Toivenen on 1986 1000 Lakes Rally in C96 KOG, Duez on 1986 San Remo Rally in C868 EUD and Alistair Sutherland on the 1986 RAC Rally in C869 EUD.
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