diff --git a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php
index a5b16082ff..18fe2bbf38 100644
--- a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php
+++ b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ class phpbb_functional_test_case extends phpbb_test_case
 
 	protected static $config = array();
 	protected static $already_installed = false;
-	protected static $last_post_timestamp = 0;
 
 	static public function setUpBeforeClass(): void
 	{
@@ -1301,13 +1300,6 @@ class phpbb_functional_test_case extends phpbb_test_case
 	*/
 	protected function submit_message($posting_url, $posting_contains, $form_data)
 	{
-		if (time() == self::$last_post_timestamp)
-		{
-			// Travis is too fast, so we have to wait to not mix up the post/topic order
-			sleep(1);
-		}
-		self::$last_post_timestamp = time();
-
 		$crawler = self::request('GET', $posting_url);
 		$this->assertStringContainsString($this->lang($posting_contains), $crawler->filter('html')->text());