diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml b/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
index 039a36c7e8..711b516aba 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 model_list:
-  - model_name: groq-whisper
+  - model_name: llama-3
     litellm_params:
-      model: groq/whisper-large-v3
-      
\ No newline at end of file
+      model: gpt-4
+      request_timeout: 1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index f50723ab99..7542108024 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -718,6 +718,9 @@ class Router:
                 data.get(
                     "timeout", None
                 )  # timeout set on litellm_params for this deployment
+                or data.get(
+                    "request_timeout", None
+                )  # timeout set on litellm_params for this deployment
                 or self.timeout  # timeout set on router
                 or kwargs.get(
                     "timeout", None