I agree with you. LFS has no advertisement anywhere and steam offers that. So what if it would bring in a load of noobs.. but the fact is they wouldnt just buy a game to crash people. thats what the demo is for.
try turning it full lock left and then right, if that doesnt work, you have to calibrate your wheel correctly / again. if that doesnt work, you need to go in to your settings in the profiler to fix it, if you do not have one, google logitech profiler and download it
Sometimes when the server(s) get overloaded with drivers, the server cant handle all of the connections. If some person with a high ping or a bad connection joins the server, i can sometimes cause people to lose connection or many people at once. It happens on most servers.