Thanks for organising an awesome, interesting, frustrating and fun race Ozric, and congratulations to all participants. Very interesting to see the different routes chosen even if most of us seems to have aimed for the same thing, less time in supercruise.
My route ended up primarily being this but obscured jumps was a big problem:
Pleiades Sector HH-V c2-13 A 1 c (866,83 ls from main star, 60,48 ly from HIP 17403)
Pleiades Sector EC-U b3-0 4 a (59,88 ls from main star, 39,94 Ly from first site)
Pleiades Sector OD-S b4-1 2 a (308,75 ls from main star, 80,04 Ly from second site, 20,67 Ly from Merope)
Total of 7 jumps.
On the final day after having waited patiently for Pleiades Sector EC-U b3-0 4 a to turn around since tuesday (I must have missed a window on friday due to sleep/work) I eventually came up with this alternative route. This one have almost 500 ls more time spent in supercruise which I countered with one of very few FSD boosts available to my commander on the last jump:
Pleiades Sector OD-S b4-1 2 a (308,75 ls from main star, 26,51 Ly from HIP 17403)
Pleiades Sector EC-U b3-0 4 a (59,88 ls from main star, 80,04 Ly from first site)
Pleiades Sector JC-B c2-9 1 a (1232,12 ls from main star, 40,17 Ly from second site, 52,92 Ly from Merope)
Total of 6 jumps.
I got lucky with the Thargoid interference compared to some other racers and the problem of targetting the crash site resolved itself like others have said before.
Winning run (1440 not done processing just yet):
Source: https://youtu.be/wOY0rMw1LcM