It could be a network problem but how would he post here? Maybe on phone but surely he would know if he had rubbish/no connection from not being able to access google or any other website for that matter.
How gullible can you be? He literally said he bought his S3 licence a few days ago, fair enough, he could have another account but if he had a bloody account before this one then why would he buy another? Yeah, maybe he just wanted to support the devs but if he wanted to do that then why didn't he buy it in the first place or if he was administrating a race with two instances of LFS so he could check for people going over the pit lane line, oh, wait, i haven't seen any race at all with this guy as an admin.... He probably has a modified hosts file, which, would mean that he can't get into the legit master server.
Weekends should be a bit better for pub racing, if you want to race with bigger grids then Rony's Tuesday Fun Race and (FM) Fox Friday are good for popping along to, no sign up needed. If you want to be even more serious, CityLiga is starting it's last season in 2 days (Grid Quali) and the AWD Winter Series is on its 3rd round next week.