diff --git a/test/e2e/config/e2e_conf.yaml b/test/e2e/config/e2e_conf.yaml
index 49e69bb33a..5405d1db14 100644
--- a/test/e2e/config/e2e_conf.yaml
+++ b/test/e2e/config/e2e_conf.yaml
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ intervals:
   default/wait-cluster: ["20m", "30s"] # The second time to check the availibility of the cluster should happen late, so kcp object has time to be created
   default/wait-control-plane: ["30m", "10s"]
   default/wait-worker-nodes: ["60m", "10s"]
-  default/wait-delete-cluster: ["20m", "10s"]
+  default/wait-delete-cluster: ["40m", "10s"]
   default/wait-machine-upgrade: ["50m", "10s"]
   default/wait-machine-remediation: ["30m", "10s"]
   default/wait-vm-state: ["20m", "100ms"]