I think this and next year will be the swan song of the gt3-r, sadly. I don't think Riley is building anymore (or is he is, nobody is buying) since all the new gt3 cars are coming next year and whatnot. Keating is a viper dealer, yes, but idk.
coming from the ex virtual srt motorsports boss, I blame the new Dodge Ceo Tinuskis or however its spelled. The viper team was funded by a 15k fee that was in the 2014-2015.5 Vipers, they took that fee out of the road car and thus all funding was bye bye.
Dodge couldn't commit that kind of money to keep the team going so they pulled the program. they also killed the dart rally-x car, and stopped funding the DOMINATING TA2 team. Now its all MOPAR for funding, which now funds the TA2 team plus the NHRA teams, which are also doing pretty good.
but TA gets no nods and all mopar seems to care about is the powwaaaaaa 426 hemis that aren't in the road cars.