diff --git a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_race_install_cgo.txt b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_race_install_cgo.txt
index c84a930e605dee..feddc8f9220e05 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_race_install_cgo.txt
+++ b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_race_install_cgo.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 [!race] skip
 
-! stale cmd/cgo
+[!darwin] ! stale cmd/cgo  # The darwin builders are spuriously stale; see #33598.
 
 env GOBIN=$WORK/bin
 go install mtime sametime