1st time at the track advice.

And get used to wearing the helmet with the car closed up(I have a hard time with this but that could just be me)

It wasn't just you. Rode bikes when i was very young and was used to it. But when i stopped and was only running cars, sometimes only on and off, just dialing in a few cars i had worked on, i had the same issues. Mainly for me it was the difference in sound.

Exactly
My car is dynamatted and gets real quiet in there with the helmet on.