Eddie Jordan insists the infighting at Mercedes would not have happened under Ross Brawn’s watch.

The relationship between the team’s drivers reached an all-time low at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, as Lewis Hamilton accused Nico Rosberg of deliberately crashing into him.

Hamilton was forced to retire as a result of the collision, costing Mercedes valuable points, while Rosberg recovered to finish second to extend his lead at the top of the drivers’ standings.

Mercedes bosses Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe appear to have an impossible job on their hands trying to keep both their warring drivers happy but, according to Jordan, they only have themselves to blame.

Jordan feels they have not shown strong enough leadership and claims the experienced Brawn should never have been allowed to leave his position as team principal at the end of last year.

“I blame the team,” said the former driver, team owner and principal, speaking on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.

“They say they let the drivers race but they don’t because at Hungary, the previous race, Rosberg was told he could pass Hamilton, Hamilton was told to let him go and he didn’t let him go. How can you say you don’t have team orders but you actually do? It’s a nonsense.

“I remember when Ross Brawn, who has won seven world championships at least in his days at Benetton and at Ferrari with Michael Schumacher, said to Rosberg in Malaysia last year ‘no, you cannot pass Lewis’.

“If Ross Brawn was there in that team it would be a different show. They would have finished first and second [at the Belgian Grand Prix].

“It’s weak. The guys there are really good guys, but they don’t have the experience and they don’t have Ross Brawn and, at the moment, they are rudderless.

“They are being run by two drivers who are like spoilt kids and are doing what they want to do.”