Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., confirmed to DirtonDirt.com today that he plans to make his return to competition driving a Devin Jones Racing Team Zero Chassis in the Oct. 20-21 General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

Aside from an abbreviated January outing with the Big Frog Motorsports team at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., the 59-year-old Hall of Famer has been out of the cockpit throughout the 2023 season while continuing his recovery from the lingering effects of injuries suffered in a March 2019 motorcycle accident and undergoing successful prostate cancer surgery in early July.

“I feel that I’m capable of going to this race and winning, because I’m not going to any race without feeling like I can win,” Bloomquist said. “I’m not gonna be an also-ran. I’ve never gone to a race in my life that I didn’t feel like I could win when I got there.

“The number one thing, you gotta be able to focus on what you’re doing and give it 100 percent, and I’ve got some people that have stepped up to help me to be able to afford to make this happen. You don’t stay down this long without everything being depleted, and financially it’s been a tough thing to stay out this long and to keep the bills paid, so I’m fortunate to have some people who are gonna support me through this race and then we’re gonna take it from there.”

Bloomquist will drive a No. 0 car of his design fielded by Devin Jones of Baker, Fla., who piloted Bloomquist Race Cars during his years running regionally from the late 2000s into the early 2010s. A winner of a SUPR-sanctioned race in 2007 at Deep South Speedway in Loxley, Ala., and a $5,000 special in ’09 at Southern Raceway in Milton, Fla., among other successes, Jones has been largely out of action in recent years.

Jones’s Northwest Florida Landclearing is listed as a sponsor of Bloomquist’s effort, joining his familiar backers that include Petroff Towing, Boomer Custom Builders and Hot Rod Septic.

Bloomquist is a three-time winner of the DTWC, capturing the race in 2005 at Atomic Speedway in Alma, Ohio, and 2014-15 at Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park. He’s won 12 crown jewel events (eight Dreams, four World 100s) at Eldora, which is hosting promoter Carl Short’s $100,000-to-win DTWC for the first time.