diff --git a/instrumentation/racecar/Appraisals b/instrumentation/racecar/Appraisals
index fdef7f748a..bd5678e697 100644
--- a/instrumentation/racecar/Appraisals
+++ b/instrumentation/racecar/Appraisals
@@ -11,3 +11,11 @@ end
 appraise 'racecar-2.8' do
   gem 'racecar', '~> 2.8.2'
 end
+
+appraise 'racecar-2.10' do
+  gem 'racecar', '~> 2.10'
+end
+
+appraise 'racecar-2.12' do
+  gem 'racecar', '~> 2.12'
+end
diff --git a/instrumentation/racecar/test/opentelemetry/instrumentation/racecar_test.rb b/instrumentation/racecar/test/opentelemetry/instrumentation/racecar_test.rb
index 44be8030b3..f233ad5660 100644
--- a/instrumentation/racecar/test/opentelemetry/instrumentation/racecar_test.rb
+++ b/instrumentation/racecar/test/opentelemetry/instrumentation/racecar_test.rb
@@ -49,12 +49,17 @@ def produce(messages)
 
     producer.close
   end
+  let(:config) do
+    config = Racecar::Config.new
+    config.group_id = "test-#{SecureRandom.hex(10)}"
+    config.brokers = ["#{host}:#{port}"]
+    config.pause_timeout = 0 # fail fast and exit
+    config
+  end
 
   let(:racecar) do
-    Racecar.config.brokers = ["#{host}:#{port}"]
-    Racecar.config.pause_timeout = 0 # fail fast and exit
-    Racecar.config.load_consumer_class(consumer_class)
-    Racecar::Runner.new(consumer_class.new, config: Racecar.config, logger: Logger.new($stderr, level: ENV.fetch('OTEL_LOG_LEVEL', 'fatal').to_sym), instrumenter: Racecar.instrumenter)
+    config.load_consumer_class(consumer_class)
+    Racecar::Runner.new(consumer_class.new, config: config, logger: Logger.new($stderr, level: ENV.fetch('OTEL_LOG_LEVEL', 'fatal').to_sym), instrumenter: Racecar.instrumenter)
   end
 
   def run_racecar(racecar)