diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture.go
index ba8ee508f46..13192f92d16 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture.go
@@ -29,11 +29,6 @@ import (
 	restclient "k8s.io/client-go/rest"
 )
 
-// FakeWatchBufferSize is the max num of watch event can be buffered in the
-// watch channel. Note that when watch event overflows or exceed this buffer
-// size, manipulations via fake client may be blocked.
-const FakeWatchBufferSize = 128
-
 // ObjectTracker keeps track of objects. It is intended to be used to
 // fake calls to a server by returning objects based on their kind,
 // namespace and name.
@@ -142,12 +137,11 @@ type tracker struct {
 	lock    sync.RWMutex
 	objects map[schema.GroupVersionResource][]runtime.Object
 	// The value type of watchers is a map of which the key is either a namespace or
-	// all/non namespace aka "" and its value is list of fake watchers. Each of
-	// fake watcher holds a buffered channel of size "FakeWatchBufferSize" which
-	// is default to 128. Manipulations on resources will broadcast the notification
-	// events into the watchers' channel and note that too many unhandled event may
-	// potentially block the tracker.
-	watchers map[schema.GroupVersionResource]map[string][]*watch.FakeWatcher
+	// all/non namespace aka "" and its value is list of fake watchers.
+	// Manipulations on resources will broadcast the notification events into the
+	// watchers' channel. Note that too many unhandled events (currently 100,
+	// see apimachinery/pkg/watch.DefaultChanSize) will cause a panic.
+	watchers map[schema.GroupVersionResource]map[string][]*watch.RaceFreeFakeWatcher
 }
 
 var _ ObjectTracker = &tracker{}
@@ -159,7 +153,7 @@ func NewObjectTracker(scheme ObjectScheme, decoder runtime.Decoder) ObjectTracke
 		scheme:   scheme,
 		decoder:  decoder,
 		objects:  make(map[schema.GroupVersionResource][]runtime.Object),
-		watchers: make(map[schema.GroupVersionResource]map[string][]*watch.FakeWatcher),
+		watchers: make(map[schema.GroupVersionResource]map[string][]*watch.RaceFreeFakeWatcher),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -206,10 +200,10 @@ func (t *tracker) Watch(gvr schema.GroupVersionResource, ns string) (watch.Inter
 	t.lock.Lock()
 	defer t.lock.Unlock()
 
-	fakewatcher := watch.NewFakeWithChanSize(FakeWatchBufferSize, true)
+	fakewatcher := watch.NewRaceFreeFake()
 
 	if _, exists := t.watchers[gvr]; !exists {
-		t.watchers[gvr] = make(map[string][]*watch.FakeWatcher)
+		t.watchers[gvr] = make(map[string][]*watch.RaceFreeFakeWatcher)
 	}
 	t.watchers[gvr][ns] = append(t.watchers[gvr][ns], fakewatcher)
 	return fakewatcher, nil
@@ -293,8 +287,8 @@ func (t *tracker) Update(gvr schema.GroupVersionResource, obj runtime.Object, ns
 	return t.add(gvr, obj, ns, true)
 }
 
-func (t *tracker) getWatches(gvr schema.GroupVersionResource, ns string) []*watch.FakeWatcher {
-	watches := []*watch.FakeWatcher{}
+func (t *tracker) getWatches(gvr schema.GroupVersionResource, ns string) []*watch.RaceFreeFakeWatcher {
+	watches := []*watch.RaceFreeFakeWatcher{}
 	if t.watchers[gvr] != nil {
 		if w := t.watchers[gvr][ns]; w != nil {
 			watches = append(watches, w...)
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture_test.go
index 967e0aefa93..5c912c2b291 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/testing/fixture_test.go
@@ -190,3 +190,34 @@ func TestWatchCallMultipleInvocation(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	wg.Wait()
 }
+
+func TestWatchAddAfterStop(t *testing.T) {
+	testResource := schema.GroupVersionResource{Group: "", Version: "test_version", Resource: "test_kind"}
+	testObj := getArbitraryResource(testResource, "test_name", "test_namespace")
+	accessor, err := meta.Accessor(testObj)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	ns := accessor.GetNamespace()
+	scheme := runtime.NewScheme()
+	codecs := serializer.NewCodecFactory(scheme)
+	o := NewObjectTracker(scheme, codecs.UniversalDecoder())
+	watch, err := o.Watch(testResource, ns)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("watch creation failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// When the watch is stopped it should ignore later events without panicking.
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			t.Errorf("Watch panicked when it should have ignored create after stop: %v", r)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	watch.Stop()
+	err = o.Create(testResource, testObj, ns)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("test resource creation failed: %v", err)
+	}
+}