diff --git a/tests/test_crawler_subprocess.py b/tests/test_crawler_subprocess.py
index 4893537f8..b12132a82 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawler_subprocess.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawler_subprocess.py
@@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ class TestCrawlerProcessSubprocessBase(ScriptRunnerMixin):
         await async_sleep(0.01)
         p.kill(sig)
         p.expect_exact("dropping downloader requests")
-        await async_sleep(0.01)
         p.kill(sig)
         p.expect_exact("forcing unclean shutdown")
         p.wait()  # type: ignore[no-untyped-call]