diff --git a/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel.c b/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel.c
index 4e83bbf2..888b2f7c 100644
--- a/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel.c
+++ b/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel.c
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ https_transfer_thread_adapter (void *args)
   struct https_test_data *cargs = args;
   unsigned int ret;
 
-  /* time spread incoming requests */
-  usleep ((useconds_t) 10.0 * ((double) rand ()) / ((double) RAND_MAX));
   ret = test_https_transfer (NULL, cargs->port,
                              cargs->cipher_suite, cargs->proto_version);
   if (ret == 0)
diff --git a/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel_threads.c b/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel_threads.c
index 4ff57044..2da6ed9e 100644
--- a/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel_threads.c
+++ b/src/testcurl/https/test_https_get_parallel_threads.c
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ https_transfer_thread_adapter (void *args)
   struct https_test_data *cargs = args;
   unsigned int ret;
 
-  /* time spread incoming requests */
-  usleep ((useconds_t) 10.0 * ((double) rand ()) / ((double) RAND_MAX));
   ret = test_https_transfer (cargs->cls, cargs->port,
                              cargs->cipher_suite, cargs->proto_version);
   if (ret == 0)