diff --git a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/StoreTest.java b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/StoreTest.java
index 6d2763324a1..2726bf8a251 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/StoreTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/store/StoreTest.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.ExceptionsHelper;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.InputStreamStreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.OutputStreamStreamOutput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.Lucene;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.TimeValue;
@@ -1234,6 +1235,7 @@ public class StoreTest extends ElasticsearchTestCase {
             // expected
         }
         assertTrue(store.isMarkedCorrupted());
+        Lucene.cleanLuceneIndex(store.directory()); // we have to remove the index since it's corrupted and might fail the MocKDirWrapper checkindex call
         store.close();
     }