As I recall from the S1 to S2 period, once you have started designing your chassis for next year - whether a new design or an upgrade - you can also start designing parts.
Blueprints for parts for the previous season's car are deleted automatically at the end of the season.
In the season update, all designs and parts get deleted. You will be able to neither design evolution nor build parts from any previous season blueprints. However, if you start an evolution of a S2 chassis before the season update, the development will keep going as usual. I hope it's clear.
hmm i can understand deleting parts and not letting you produce any previous season parts as well but deleting previous seasons blue prints i don't understand.
Otherwise there would be too much. If you want to keep some blueprints from the previous season, you can start development based on them but for the next season's chassis. That way, they'll be "saved" in a way.
If they have to be deleted they should go week 2 the following season so you have time to finish evolution designs for your next car. Ok next question, again think I saw this on chat, can you fit next seasons parts to this seasons car?