diff --git a/tests/contrib/urllib3/test_urllib3.py b/tests/contrib/urllib3/test_urllib3.py
index 2f0c447ee65..811525f0743 100644
--- a/tests/contrib/urllib3/test_urllib3.py
+++ b/tests/contrib/urllib3/test_urllib3.py
@@ -532,7 +532,6 @@ def test_distributed_tracing_apm_opt_out_true(self):
         # Check that distributed tracing headers are passed down; raise an error rather than make the
         # request since we don't care about the response at all
         config.urllib3["distributed_tracing"] = True
-        self.tracer.enabled = False
         with mock.patch(
             "urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool._make_request", side_effect=ValueError
         ) as m_make_request: