Do people in TrackMania keep in mind/follow racing fundamentals?

hello, you can skip to the question below but for some context:

im a casual watcher on trackmania, i like to see some clips and watch some cup of the days on youtube from guys like granady, wirtual, scrappy...i did play the game and sometimes come back for one campaign or another, i have no interest in paying the subscription so i just played the basic campaigns, so i dont think i need to say that im not fast and im not a long time player.

that being said, what i play all day is simracing games, like iracing and assetto corsa. i play simracing for a very long time and in my time playing i learned a lot about all types of racing rules, fundamentals, tricks, whatever you want to call them. of course there is a lot of things that are based in the racing part, as fighting other cars in the track. but a lot of it its just being fast in an empty track.

from a long time now, everytime that im watching trackmania i wonder if the really fast guys that find the perfect lines very fast have some racing fundamentals in mind or if its a whole different logic to follow. i know trackmania its not a simracing game and its a very different racing game if you can call it that. but for most of racing games the fundamentals apply very well still.

THE QUESTION is: when going for a knew track, do you have some racing fundamentals in the back of your mind, that help you find whats the fastest way? or in case of a cup of the day, that you messed up a round, do you have these racing fundamentals there to help you lose less time when in a suboptimal line?

as racing fundamentals, im talking about:

ideal line thrw a corner, opening wide the entry, cutting the apex and going wide into exit.

slowing down in entry, accelrating in apex.

when its better to do a early apex/late apex/double apex. and the list goes on

i really like trackmania, i have no interest in playing. its just something that im really curios on how it works. i know the physics are very different and all. but from the times that i remember watching WR's, i think most of the times the replays showed some lines that followed the racing logic, but i wonder if the drivers think about it when driving or it kinda just happens when following another logic to get fast