Motor sports enthusiasts on the hunt for special TT items or for well-known motorcycle drivers in oil paint, who will soon be able to indulge themselves at Assen-Zuid. Right opposite the iconic exit to the TT Circuit, a cultural TT plaster place will be installed in a vacant industrial hall. Pitstop 22 is the name, where motorsport, art and creativity come together.
The hall, with bare concrete floor, is sandwiched between two hamburger giants, with a large parking space in front. For half a year, Asser Gallery owner Yolanda Visser had an eye on the vacant building. “I usually pick up something that someone else hasn’t done yet. And I thought, it’s 100 years TT. I have to do something crazy.”
And that ‘crazy’, that is an engine experience place, in the porch of the TT Circuit. “Because there are countless camping guests in Witten or surroundings, which never come in the city. And motorcyclists who come pure for the TT races, they will not go into the center so quickly. They can park here, right in front of the door. And so you can have them experienced TT for 100 years. This is an ultimate location for a pit stop.
Once inside, they can enjoy everything that has to do with the TT. Whether it concerns flags, shirts, fleece blankets, beautiful pins, caps, or motorsport processed in painting. And immersing yourself in the historic TT atmosphere is also possible. Because there are film images of earlier motorcycle races from the Drents Archief. And for the gourmets, even a historic beer pump is being hired.
Yolanda Visser has been running Galerie 22, in the middle of the city for several years, at Brink 22. But she likes to make a trip outside with Pitstop 22, where she gets help from all kinds of Asser Partners. The biggest partner in crime is Stefan Krans, who rises to art with his trade Motorsport. Because dozens of painting works, with well-known drivers such as Valentino Rossi, are the big eye-catchers in the pop-up motorexperience.
The newest acquisition in the series is one of Marc Marquez, the Spaniard who is currently in the MotoGP. “He is tipped like the new world champion. And such a painting quickly does 5,000 euros,” Krans beams. In the meantime, the motor art dealer takes his cell phone out of his pocket, because he wants to show something.
“One that is much more special, and also a scoop. One for the real TT Diehards. I just can’t show him in real life yet. He’s still on the way.”
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