diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ef67316fb9..6ff974757a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ inputs_error.dat
 # Test build files
 tests/build/
 tests/ctestscript.run
+tests/test_track_output/results_test.dat
 
 # HDF5 files
 *.h5
diff --git a/tests/test_track_output/results_test.dat b/tests/test_track_output/results_test.dat
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ded87a0ec..0000000000
--- a/tests/test_track_output/results_test.dat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<VTKFile type="PPolyData" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian" compressor="vtkZLibDataCompressor">
-  <PPolyData GhostLevel="0">
-    <PPoints>
-      <PDataArray type="Float32" Name="Points" NumberOfComponents="3"/>
-    </PPoints>
-    <Piece Source="poly_0.vtp"/>
-  </PPolyData>
-</VTKFile>