By Mia De Graaf An eight-year-old boy with a severe heart condition used his one wish granted by a charity to take his father to a racing track. Rhys Evans has endured two life-saving operations in his eight years to stem a hole in his heart. Despite doctors' attempts to fit artificial valves when he was just five months old, he has now outgrown them - forcing him back into the operating theatre. Scroll down for video One and only wish: Eight-year-old Rhys Evans was told he could pick the experience of a lifetime after undergoing his second open-heart operation. He asked to pay for his father, Darryl, to race at Silverstone
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Rhys Evans, 8, born with leaking heart valves, had two open surgeries
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Charity offered him lifetime experience, chose to give it to soldier father
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Darryl Evans, 33, recalled to Afghanistan front line soon after Rhys's surgery
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Rhys requested Aston Martin skid race, watched with mother and sisters
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Mr Evans, an army sergeant, said he couldn't believe it when @placeholder, beaming, revealed the surprise.