Everything looked in place for Mark Webber to get the win at the Nurburgring. He dominated the race in 2009, was fastest on Friday and grabbed the pole on Saturday. After the race Webber expressed his feelings on just missing out on the win: "I'm disappointed not to get the win today - but it's another good result. At the end we needed to try and do something a bit different; we led the middle part of the race, but we couldn't get the tyre range around the pit stops to get the undercut on the second stop. I drove on the limit, but we were not quick enough and that was it. Lewis was able to cover us all the time and respond to my pace, so you couldn't get the gap. He got a good start and mine wasn't so good, but the starts aren't key to the race finishes this year."

In the end he wasn't too disappointed as he says he gave his maximum: "I did pretty much everything I could today – it was very intense racing between the three of us at the front (Lewis, Fernando and Mark), I was pushing to the limit, but there wasn't much more we could do to challenge for the victory. We're a strong unit though – a good team and we'll push on. We know what we need to do."