diff --git a/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml b/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml
index 83ea2587d..3e1931ae2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml
@@ -640,17 +640,17 @@ jobs:
           key: v1-conan-benchmarks-${{ github.sha }}
           restore-keys: |
             v1-conan-benchmarks-
-      - name: Prepare data
-        run: |
-          wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany/berlin-latest.osm.pbf -O ~/data.osm.pbf
-          python3 scripts/ci/download_gps_traces.py 13.0884 52.3383 13.7611 52.6755 > ~/gps_traces.csv
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: python3 -m pip install "conan<2.0.0" "requests==2.31.0" "locust==2.28.0"
       - name: Checkout PR Branch
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: ${{ github.head_ref }}
           path: pr
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: python3 -m pip install "conan<2.0.0" "requests==2.31.0" "locust==2.28.0"
+      - name: Prepare data
+        run: |
+          wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany/berlin-latest.osm.pbf -O ~/data.osm.pbf
+          python3 ./pr/scripts/ci/download_gps_traces.py 13.0884 52.3383 13.7611 52.6755 > ~/gps_traces.csv
       - name: Build PR Branch
         run: |
           mkdir -p pr/build