As you can see from this chart, LFS licensed racers are the most active at around 21:00 UTC. Considering that most LFS servers are located in Europe and you live in Australia, you should probably try to find some servers hosted by the Australian racing community so you get acceptable pings.
haha it was so funny xD that doesnt usually happens to me lol the tyres got locked and i had to deal with the crazy UFR xD
Oh and HokusaiXL, £24 in dollars are 45.4dollars today at 3:04pm GMT -6 xD