I have in each component 17 designers working in the evolution of the car, 100% for next season. However the development takes about 1 month to enlarge a small percentage for next season. why this happens?
The better your ca is this season, the slower dev for next.
So for example if you cars this season is 1% you should see close to 20% per dev day if you only develope next season.
Where if your car for this season is 40/50/60% it will drop right down to 7%.
A 90% car this season would only see very low 2% dev for next.
Don't devide the designers equally if that causes producing of parts to take a long time. As you can have a new part every two days, increase the amount of designers on a couple of parts so that they will be ready within that time. Once those are done, move the designers to the other parts etc.