diff --git a/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml
index 8b09af93cc..a26eb9b24d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/selfdrive_tests.yaml
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ jobs:
                         $UNIT_TEST selfdrive/car && \
                         $UNIT_TEST selfdrive/locationd && \
                         $UNIT_TEST selfdrive/athena && \
-                        nosetests -s selfdrive/athena/tests/test_athenad_old.py && \
                         $UNIT_TEST selfdrive/thermald && \
                         $UNIT_TEST tools/lib/tests && \
                         ./selfdrive/common/tests/test_util && \
diff --git a/selfdrive/athena/tests/test_athenad_old.py b/selfdrive/athena/tests/test_athenad_old.py
deleted file mode 100755
index f9e4958ec9..0000000000
--- a/selfdrive/athena/tests/test_athenad_old.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-import json
-import os
-import signal
-import subprocess
-import time
-
-import requests
-
-from selfdrive.manager.process_config import managed_processes
-from common.params import Params
-from common.realtime import sec_since_boot
-from selfdrive.test.helpers import with_processes
-
-os.environ['FAKEUPLOAD'] = "1"
-
-
-def test_athena():
-  start = sec_since_boot()
-  managed_processes['manage_athenad'].start()
-
-  params = Params()
-  manage_athenad_pid = params.get("AthenadPid")
-  assert manage_athenad_pid is not None
-  try:
-    os.kill(int(manage_athenad_pid), 0)
-    # process is running
-  except OSError:
-    assert False, "manage_athenad is dead"
-
-  def expect_athena_starts(timeout=30):
-    now = time.monotonic()
-    athenad_pid = None
-    while athenad_pid is None:
-      try:
-        athenad_pid = subprocess.check_output(["pgrep", "-P", manage_athenad_pid], encoding="utf-8").strip()
-        return athenad_pid
-      except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
-        if time.monotonic() - now > timeout:
-          assert False, f"Athena did not start within {timeout} seconds"
-        time.sleep(0.5)
-
-  def athena_post(payload, max_retries=5, wait=5):
-    tries = 0
-    while 1:
-      try:
-        resp = requests.post(
-          "https://athena.comma.ai/" + params.get("DongleId", encoding="utf-8"),
-          headers={
-            "Authorization": "JWT thisisnotajwt",
-            "Content-Type": "application/json"
-          },
-          data=json.dumps(payload),
-          timeout=30
-        )
-        resp_json = resp.json()
-        if resp_json.get('error'):
-          raise Exception(resp_json['error'])
-        return resp_json
-      except Exception as e:
-        time.sleep(wait)
-        tries += 1
-        if tries == max_retries:
-          raise
-        else:
-          print(f'athena_post failed {e}. retrying...')
-
-  def expect_athena_registers(test_t0):
-    resp = athena_post({
-      "method": "echo",
-      "params": ["hello"],
-      "id": 0,
-      "jsonrpc": "2.0"
-    }, max_retries=12, wait=5)
-    assert resp.get('result') == "hello", f'Athena failed to register ({resp})'
-
-    last_pingtime = params.get("LastAthenaPingTime", encoding='utf8')
-    assert last_pingtime, last_pingtime
-    assert ((int(last_pingtime)/1e9) - test_t0) < (sec_since_boot() - test_t0)
-
-  try:
-    athenad_pid = expect_athena_starts()
-    # kill athenad and ensure it is restarted (check_output will throw if it is not)
-    os.kill(int(athenad_pid), signal.SIGINT)
-    expect_athena_starts()
-
-    if not os.getenv('COMMA_JWT'):
-      print('WARNING: COMMA_JWT env not set, will not test requests to athena.comma.ai')
-      return
-
-    expect_athena_registers(start)
-
-    print("ATHENA: getSimInfo")
-    resp = athena_post({
-      "method": "getSimInfo",
-      "id": 0,
-      "jsonrpc": "2.0"
-    })
-    assert resp.get('result'), resp
-    assert 'sim_id' in resp['result'], resp['result']
-
-    print("ATHENA: takeSnapshot")
-    resp = athena_post({
-      "method": "takeSnapshot",
-      "id": 0,
-      "jsonrpc": "2.0"
-    })
-    assert resp.get('result'), resp
-    assert resp['result']['jpegBack'], resp['result']
-
-    @with_processes(["deviceStated"])
-    def test_athena_deviceState():
-      print("ATHENA: getMessage(deviceState)")
-      resp = athena_post({
-        "method": "getMessage",
-        "params": {"service": "deviceState", "timeout": 5000},
-        "id": 0,
-        "jsonrpc": "2.0"
-      })
-      assert resp.get('result'), resp
-      assert resp['result']['deviceState'], resp['result']
-    test_athena_deviceState()
-  finally:
-    try:
-      athenad_pid = subprocess.check_output(["pgrep", "-P", manage_athenad_pid], encoding="utf-8").strip()
-    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
-      athenad_pid = None
-
-    try:
-      os.kill(int(manage_athenad_pid), signal.SIGINT)
-      os.kill(int(athenad_pid), signal.SIGINT)
-    except (OSError, TypeError):
-      pass
-
-