Not sure about this particular track, but one thing to keep in mind is that mines only work outside cruise.
We normally ran our races through the mid section of trade lanes, so spamming mines had the hazard of choke points. our qualifier was that you had to finish the race to win, so everyone dying is either a redo or a straight up loss. Dying to your own mine is still dying.
We did have one race where everyone died because of nukes at the start of the race.
