diff --git a/r/adbcsqlite/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R b/r/adbcsqlite/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R
index beb57049c9..5c8ac48e00 100644
--- a/r/adbcsqlite/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R
+++ b/r/adbcsqlite/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ if (identical(Sys.getenv("NOT_CRAN"), "true") &&
     ),
     tweaks = suppressWarnings(
       DBItest::tweaks(
-        dbitest_version = "1.8.0",
+        dbitest_version = "1.7.2",
         constructor_relax_args = TRUE,
         placeholder_pattern = c("?", "$1", "$name", ":name"),
         date_cast = function(x) paste0("'", x, "'"),