diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmarks/tracking.py b/benchmarks/benchmarks/tracking.py
index a0e5a45115..29f5ac4c6e 100644
--- a/benchmarks/benchmarks/tracking.py
+++ b/benchmarks/benchmarks/tracking.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ def setup(self):
         self.solar_position = solarposition.get_solarposition(self.times,
                                                               self.lat,
                                                               self.lon)
-        self.tracker = tracking.SingleAxisTracker()
 
     def time_singleaxis(self):
         with np.errstate(invalid='ignore'):
@@ -28,8 +27,3 @@ def time_singleaxis(self):
                                 max_angle=60,
                                 backtrack=True,
                                 gcr=0.45)
-
-    def time_tracker_singleaxis(self):
-        with np.errstate(invalid='ignore'):
-            self.tracker.singleaxis(self.solar_position.apparent_zenith,
-                                    self.solar_position.azimuth)
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.4.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.4.rst
index 00bc89207a..1d890e5512 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.4.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.4.rst
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Documentation
 
 Benchmarking
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* Removed ``time_tracker_singleaxis`` function from tracking.py (:issue:`1508`, :pull:`1535`)
 
 
 Requirements
@@ -43,3 +44,5 @@ Contributors
 * Christian Orner (:ghuser:`chrisorner`)
 * Saurabh Aneja (:ghuser:`spaneja`)
 * Marcus Boumans (:ghuser:`bowie2211`)
+* Naman Priyadarshi (:ghuser:`Naman-Priyadarshi`)
+