Design Emphasis Issue

During last season (season 7) I had all my components around 35% and dedicated all my designers to work on the car for season 8..  Near the end of season 7 I had 100% for all components for seasons 8's car.  Brilliant.

So for season 8 I again got all my designers working on the next seasons car, I should after all make 100% again...  shouldn't I ?

So I started season 8 with version 8A.  All my designers were set to work on the car for season 9.

Today after five days of development I got the first version of the season 9 car and it had increased by...  1%.  Eh ??  Only 1% ??  I'll be lucky to have a car with 15% development with that increase.

I now notice that after the first race of season 8 I have some 8B components.  How can that be, I thought they were all working on next seasons car and how can they further develop components that are already at 100% ??
 
I have my manufacturing set to ‘high quality’, test rig to ‘very high’ and wind tunnel at ‘very high’.  These have never been changed since I first got them several seasons ago.

Can this issue please be looked at ASAP or I'll be stuck with my worst car ever.

This aint a bug the desgin system is like this so no one team can be great every season.  i am quite shocked that a manager of your experiance has not noticed this before you are a level 9 manager. best thing to do is try and have balanced car every season 

http://igpmanager.com/play/?url=rules 2.1

Next season gains are based on current season performance levels
When a team focuses a lot of energy on one season it has a negative impact on the next. This prevents a team from ever becoming unstoppable.

This system ensures that no team is unstoppable, if we could all develop 100% cars every season then the design system would be pointless. As norrie says above its about deciding whether you want a balanced car every season [60/60] or if you want to risk it all to go for a big win and poor next season [100/20]. 

Although tbh the starting  % of your car means very little since you can develop parts before the first race as well as clone ~100% parts from someone else in your league every race

If you race every day, with 100% car it takes ~15designers per part to get updates every 2 days [and not the 5 days stated above, so try adjusting staff levels etc

Regarding going onto B/C/D if at 100% the part is still "the same" but you have a reference as to how many updates you have had this season]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.