As others have said, don't waste your time with those kind of people. They're ego is all they care about
I too consider myself to be slow off the line. It's probably a combo of my gearing, reaction time, internet connection, mixed with the fact I don't give a 🤬 about drag racing to the first corner. I think a large part of it is that many people just simply don't get the fact that even a difference of
half a second between when two cars start, can lead to a gap of several car lengths opening up by the time you reach the initiation point.
I've kind of given up on asking for courtesy rolls at this point. I've realized that if I need to
ask someone for a courtesy roll, they're not really someone I consider worthy of my time. Unless you're drifting for your first time, you should know what a courtesy roll is, and how to do them properly (slowing down by brake checking someone is not a courtesy roll, FYI).
I've had people laugh too, and call me and/or my car slow, when I ask for a roll. The funny thing is though, when doing full laps, these same people can't keep up to save their lives
, in cars that are supposed to be "fast".
I'll go out on a limb and make this statement, but I really feel that courtesy rolling is a
skill that a large number of drifters lack. I'll go even farther and say that a large number of people who consider themselves as "good" don't even know how to check their mirrors (ie look backwards) when leading.